[email protected] wrote:
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.
I think the intent is to provide administrators with the knowledge that
there is additional software that could be installed if they opted to
enable additional publishers.
--
Shawn Walker
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