hi

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Mon Feb 23 08:12:16 PST 2009


On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>> mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building
>> them as local ports.
>>
>> The source for these ports is no longer maintained, and they may pose a
>> security risk if you use them on multi-user machines --- especially if
>> untrusted users have local shell access --- but if you want to shoot
>> your foot, the Ports tree already provides gun & ammo to do that :-)
>
> alpine works fine

I know.  That's why I am not in favor of maintaining pine4 *in* the
Ports tree.  If someone wants to blow their foot off, however, then it's
fine with me, as long as they know what they are doing when they point
the "cvs update" gun backwards in time :)



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