On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 03:50:25PM +0000, Bryan Everly wrote: > Hi ports@ > > I've always thought that it made the most sense for an information security > professional doing penetration testing or forensics to use a secure operating > system, and yet most use Kali Linux which runs everything as root. I did a > quick analysis of the default tools that Kali has installed and determined > which ones of them we already have in the ports collection. Turns out there > are a fair number. > > Ideally, I'd like to get as many of those tools added to our ports collection > and installable with a single pkg_add command. I was looking at how gnome and > kde work as a "meta package" and that wouldn't be appropriate for this use > case as I'd have to move everything under a "pentester" (or some name) > directory which I think would be awkward and possibly annoying to the folks > who maintain these ports.
Look at meta/ subdir. meta doesnt mean "moving all ports under a common subdir", it's just an empty dummy port with a README and RUN_DEPENDS. Landry
