<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Hi Peter,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 11, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Dr. Peter R. Rüßmann wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Good evening,<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">I am pretty new in the Macs environment and my target is to install Hugs Haskell on this system. I have done this on a test machine via Darwin Ports following the descriptions found in the web.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="ecmsonormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Now my system administrator told me that this procedure is not suitable for the productive system, because Darwin Ports allows uncontrolled installation working out of the “usual rights context”. Therefore I have some questions:</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>I'm not sure what this "usual rights context" means. Macports (the new name of darwinports) allows</DIV><DIV>installation in directories controlled by the user without root privileges. I know of at least one </DIV><DIV>case where this is used by students to install ghc on their own systems. For a system-wide installation,</DIV><DIV>hugs can be installed using root privileges through the sudo command, as in</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>sudo port hugs98 install</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I support hugs under macports, so you can copy your questions to me.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you can specify more completely what the problem is, perhaps I can help.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Best Wishes,</DIV><DIV>Greg</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV class="Section1"><P class="ecmsonormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="ecmsonormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">1) Is there a more suitable way to overcome the mentioned Darwin Ports difficulties?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="ecmsonormal"><FONT size="2" face="Tahoma"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">2) Did someone use Darwin Ports to install Hugs and solved the mentioned difficulties (perhaps using the sudo command)?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Thanks for your help, Peter<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hugs-Users mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Hugs-Users@haskell.org">Hugs-Users@haskell.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-users">http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-users</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>