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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:06:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@freebsd.org.ru>
Cc: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>,
	SADA Kenji <sada@bsdclub.org>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: It's time to remove Netscape 4.79
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Sergey A. Osokin wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:24:03PM +0300, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
> > Hello, SADA Kenji!
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:41:49PM +0900, you wrote:
> >
> > > I'm about to remove all my netscape 4.79 and earlier ports in few days.
> > Any chance they will release 4.8 for FreeBSD?
> >
> > Anyway, I would like them to stay in ports, just marked broken, because
> > of some users, who need those browsers only for trusted sources. It is
> > lightweight and handy.

Netscape 4.80 is similarly lightweight and handy, but doesn't have
multiple security bugs published against it.  There are other lightweight,
handy browsers too.

> Don't forget about repo-copy: *netscape*47* -> *netscape*48* :-)

He didn't. :-)
-- 
Trevor Johnson


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