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IMPORTANT: This project was completed by joerg. You may still contact the people above for details, but please do not submit an application for this project.

To create packages that are usable by anyone, pkgsrc currently requires that packages be built with superuser privileges. It is already possible to use pkgsrc in great parts without such privileges, but there haven't been many thoughts about how the resulting binary packages should be specified. For example, many packages don't care at all about the owner/group of their files, as long as they are not publicly overwritable. In the end, the binary packages should be as independent from the build environment as possible.

For more information about the current state, see the How to use pkgsrc as non-root section in the pkgsrc guide, Jörg's mail on DESTDIR support as well as pkgsrc/mk/unprivileged.mk.