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Description
Problem
Many users of the homebrew package manager set the permissions of /usr/local and such so sudo is not required. However, the Elm-Platform installer, e.g. Elm-Platform-0.17.1.pkg, requires the user to type in their password for administrative access regardless if it already has permission or not. I don't think this is a good security policy.
Solution
The installer checks if it has permission to the necessary subdirectories of /usr/local. If it does, install without elevating privileges. If it doesn't, prompt user for administrative access, elevate privileges, and install as root.