hi

[Sean Cavanaugh]

instead of editors/pico, try editors/nano

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From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 5:48 PM
To: "Saifi Khan" <saifi.khan at twincling.org>
Cc: "GrimJow Espada" <grimjow.espada at gmail.com>; 
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: hi

> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:46 +0000, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan at twincling.org> 
> wrote:
>> Gentoo userland and emerge tools are easier and elegant though not
>> certainly superior to FreeBSD make mechanism.  This is based on my
>> personal experience as i heavily use Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD on older
>> hardware.  And offcourse, i can easily emerge pine 4.64 on Gentoo but
>> there is no way i can do it on FreeBSD.
>
> You can always check out `ports/mail/pine4' from a date before its
> removal from the ports/ tree and build it on FreeBSD too.  If you need
> help with maintaining a local copy of the relevant ports (`mail/pine4',
> `mail/pine4-ssl', and `editors/pico') let me know and I'll write a short
> 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 The source for these ports is no longer maintained, and they may pose a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 :-)
>
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