From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 22:48:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0C9106564A for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:48:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A600C8FC16 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:48:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl131-194.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.250.194]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-6) with ESMTP id n1MMm9pc018960 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:48:17 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n1MMm9H2003741; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:48:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n1MMm7k2003740; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:48:07 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Saifi Khan References: <9ef7e7380902220154t74657d52uc9497c77672b79f8@mail.gmail.com> <9a52b1190902220711u65e38320t97ca56547bef246d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:48:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <9a52b1190902220711u65e38320t97ca56547bef246d@mail.gmail.com> (Saifi Khan's message of "Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:46 +0000") Message-ID: <87ljryccm0.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Hellug-MailScanner-ID: n1MMm9pc018960 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.879, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.52, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: GrimJow Espada , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:48:30 -0000 On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:46 +0000, Saifi Khan 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 :-)