On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Alan Barrett wrote:

> > No, the right approach is to warn explicitly that this behavior occurs.
> >  I see no reason to be prejudicial against these types of packages by
> > removing them from pkgsrc, and I haven't heard any good arguments to
> > make this case yet.
>
> I agree.  There's no need to remove such things from pkgsrc, but I
> would like them not to be built or installed without deliberate special
> action.

Or, have pkgsrc hack the source to flip the logic:  only call home for
updates *if requested*, and still show a MESSAGE regarding what the switch
does.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>