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I'm not sure about unprivileged installs, but MacPorts is very good about sticking to /opt/local. It doesn't ever place anything (including config files) outsid

I'm not sure about unprivileged installs, but MacPorts is very good about sticking to /opt/local. It doesn't ever place anything (including config files) outside of /opt/local. So you get pretty good assurance that it won't trash your system too badly.

Wowfunhappy 6y ago
And, they actually enforce this with a specially provisioned MacPorts user. So although it requires sudo, MacPorts installs don’t actually run as root.