* On 2005-04-08 at 18:46 BST, Roland Illig wrote:

> I once suggested a variable PKGSRC_OPTIONS for this case, which
> would be a list of these values:
> 
>     nonroot -- assume that the user does not have root access,
>                neither when building a package nor when installing
>                it.
>     developer -- enable PLIST checks and the like.
>     quiet -- MAKE_FLAGS+=-s and CONFIGURE_ARGS+=-q for GNU_CONFIGURE.
>     ...
> 
> Is anyone interested that I integrate the PKGSRC_OPTIONS into pkgsrc?

I'd certainly like the nonroot knob (which will basically add "-W" to
mtree calls, set all *OWN/*GRP variables to local user, and make
chown/chgrp etc NOPs).  Searching the archives should produce configs
from people who do nonroot work, if not I can provide some.

Thanks,

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