On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:35:51AM +0100, Peter Dennis - Sustaining Engineer 
wrote:
> Are there plans to have a 'catalog only' access to a repository ?
>
> That is I want to configure my system such that it allows for
> the search of /pending or /contrib repositories but does install
> the software from them without some form of explicit actions
> to use software from those (that is I cannot accidently do a
> pkg install foobar but I can search to see if foobar exists
> without having to use a browser to point at the repositories).

What are you trying to accomplish?  Can you give a more thorough use
case here?

A catalog is a list of things that are available from a particular
source.  In IPS, the catalog is a list of packages available from a
publisher.  It doesn't make a lot of sense to issue a catalog but then
make the items unavailable.  "Here's a list of things you cannot have,"
seems confusing from a software installation stand point.

-j
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