From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 31 2:38:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spmnt.spmnt40 (gw.spinner.fsh958.014.001.freshnet.de [217.145.128.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC30837B424 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 02:38:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from s.hein@spinner.de) Received: from spinner.de (192.168.17.243 [192.168.17.243]) by spmnt.spmnt40 with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id L66LWHSD; Thu, 31 May 2001 11:38:04 +0100 Message-ID: <3B161193.6B5AF850@spinner.de> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:40:35 +0200 From: Steffen Hein X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-21mdksmp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrades [each time more trouble] References: <20010530114351.B68671@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > Neither of these things you mention are related to upgrading of > FreeBSD, they're third party applications running on FreeBSD which you > installed through the ports collection. Just be careful who you're > really blaming here. This opinion plainly ignores that the port collection is sold along with the [basic system] FreeBSD CD distribution and that a minimum of working printer software is, in fact, essential - for any OS to be serviceable. - This to such a degree that the distributor of an OS cannot simply refer to 'third party applications', here. Everybody buying a car would look quite stange, if the vendor referred to the tires, for instance, as a 'third party product', for which he rejects all responsibility. Best wishes, Steffen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message