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Re: Ports without a network.
From: Peter Valchev (pvalchev
sightly.net)
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 17:02:55 CDT
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> That isn't likely to work in the case of opera. Not all packages can be
> released to the world, depending on their licenses. This is why there
> are more ports than packages. Since Opera doesn't exist as a package
> I'd bet that the license is the reason. I don't know anything about chguy,
> but hopefully they aren't making their own packages, which is what they'd
> have to do if they offered everything.
Yep, the license allows neither package distribution nor even distfile
redistribution. Similar problem plagues jdk and other non-free pieces
of software.
However you can use the "all" make target of the mirror-maker Makefile
to download even those yourself... they just won't be on the FTP mirrors.
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