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Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:25:34 -0700
From:      Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>
To:        Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: security/nmap
Message-ID:  <19990913152534.A3286@norn.ca.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <lf906awo0p.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>
References:  <xzpn1us145b.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <lf906awo0p.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>

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On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 04:32:38PM -0400, Chris Shenton wrote:
> On 12 Sep 1999 18:33:04 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> said:
> 
> Dag-Erling> The security/nmap now depends unconditionally on X and GTK
> Dag-Erling> (presumably so you can use the fancy graphical front-end,
> Dag-Erling> which is not much more than an overgrown xterm). I find
> Dag-Erling> this totally unacceptable. Please back out revision 1.18
> Dag-Erling> of ports/security/nmap/Makefile.
> 
> Agreed; tried to build a couple days ago to do some urgent diagnosis
> and all of a sudden it seemed to be trying to compile the friggin'
> world. All I want to do is audit security, not make it look like RedHat-3d.
> 
> Please restore the text-only nmap.

I'm pretty sure that obrien was intending to do that but forgot
to before the ports freeze.  (see the new port nmapfe...).  It'll
be at least a few more days before anyone can do anything about it,
though.

-Chris
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