id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	port
30071	dbus cannot install without root privileges	etlverified@…	mcalhoun@macports.org	"I have installed macports without root privileges by configuring it with ""--with-no-root-privileges --with-install-user=$USER"". This is an important use case; a number of developers at my company use macports this way (no root access).

I've found that a large number of useful packages depend on dbus (e.g. qt4-mac), which fails to install without root privileges:

{{{
--->  Activating dbus @1.4.12_0
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: error copying ""/Users/etl/macports/var/macports/software/dbus/1.4.12_0/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist"" to ""/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist"": permission denied
Error: Failed to install dbus
}}}

Could you please make the dbus port somehow install when macports is not configured for root access? Something like qt4-mac is just a library; it shouldn't need administrator privileges to be installed. Similarly, pretty much every app from the GNOME desktop depends on dbus.
"	defect	closed	Normal		ports	1.9.2	duplicate			dbus