depends blacklist qa check

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 01:55:19PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> re: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19562
> 
> I understand the purpose of the blacklist is to restrict the use of certain meta ports to end-users only.  That is, the meta-ports in question should not be used as a depends in the FreeBSD ports tree.
> 
> For example, do not use lang/python as a depends. Let the user install that install.
> 
> With my user hat on, who has a in-house meta-port which includes lang/python2 as a depends, because we want it, and list of other stuff installed.
> 
> We can't do that now. Our meta-port is broken and can no longer be used. Is there another way? The list appears hardcoded and no way for the end user to configure.

Well, that is not correct.  QA checks are only run when using poudriere
testport or bulk -t, or when DEVELOPER=yes.  So, while it is true that
such meta port will no longer pass testing, it will not impact a normal
poudriere bulk.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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