Subject: Re: ssh IS_INTERACTIVE?
To: Christoph Badura <bad@oreilly.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/07/1999 13:05:15
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Christoph Badura wrote:

: >Why is our security/ssh package marked IS_INTERACTIVE=yes?
: 
: This is somehow related to "RESTRICTED=.....".  I don't recall whether Todd
: explained the real reason on on packages or not.

- security/ssh is crypto and license restricted to an extreme;
IS_INTERACTIVE is the only guaranteed-to-skip-on-batch-builds option at the
moment

- security/ssh is different in binary form between X-installed and
non-X-installed systems

This is what I remember off the top of my head.

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)