An idea about forbidden ports

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> So, would it be a useful idea to include dummy packages for FORBIDDEN 
> programs so that people know that they exist?  When you did pkg_add -r 
> vmware3 have it grab a dummy package that just has a shell script that 
> tells the person why the package doesn't exist, suggest how to go about 
> installing that port, and return an error value so that the package 
> isn't successfully installed.
> 
I think that this would be very helpful for beginners as they get very 
confused with error message they do not really understand.

Erich