An idea about forbidden ports

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:27:47AM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not, but I'm going to throw this idea 
> out there in hopes that it might be of some use.
> 
> I was thinking how this error message occurs:
> 
> podysseus# pkg_add -r vmware3
> Error: FTP Unable to get 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-current/Latest/vmware3.tbz: 
> File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> 
> But really, we do have vmware3, it's just not packaged due to it being 
> marked FORBIDDEN.
> 
> 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.
> 
> This would be of immense help once we grow some sort of package manager 
> system, as it would allow everything to be listed.
> 
> It might be a problem with portupgrade -P, though.
> 
> Just a thought,

That's not a bad idea.  Can someone come up with an implementation?

Kris
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