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From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 02:23:15AM -0700, ck74 wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Couls someone please tell me how a user can restrict freebsd to install
> open-source ports only? Well, for example if you want to install www/opera,
> 'make install' does not warn user that this port uses closed-source (binary
> distribution) only.

There is no general mechanism in place for that.
Installing software that is partly or completely closed-source is not really
something that it is considered that users need to be warned about.



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