Subject: Re: What happened to the good ntop?
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/24/2005 14:04:10
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Alan Barrett wrote:

> Does pkgsrc have any policy about warning people about applications
> that might do unexpected things?  For example, use something like
> LICENSE=phones-home-by-default, and make people explicitly agree
> to that before installing the pkg.

Not that I know of. But seems like a good idea.

I didn't know that ntop (new version) does this. Maybe at least a MESSAGE
should mention this.

>  I have also wanted things like
> LICENSE=closed-source-binary-package, so that I would get a warning when
> building any package that doesn't come with source code.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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