From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 14 04:30:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55B816A403 for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 04:30:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E42443D45 for ; Sun, 14 May 2006 04:30:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp223-61.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.223.61]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4E4U1VW010181 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 14 May 2006 14:00:03 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 13:59:38 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200605140240.k4E2eZtM001183@mist.nodomain> In-Reply-To: <200605140240.k4E2eZtM001183@mist.nodomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart81971172.v8E616xGgL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200605141359.55945.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Dan Strick , dan@mist.nodomain Subject: Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 04:30:34 -0000 --nextPart81971172.v8E616xGgL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 14 May 2006 12:10, Dan Strick wrote: > Is this the official work-around? I see that there are also compat4x > and compat3x ports in /usr/ports/misc. Is 1x, 20, 21, and 22 > compatibility support gone forever? (Not that I would miss it. I only > need 4x and 5x compatibility.) It isn't a work around.. There's no point the default install installing libraries that the majority= of=20 people don't use - there are very few binary only applications for a given= =20 version of FreeBSD. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart81971172.v8E616xGgL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEZrJD5ZPcIHs/zowRAn0jAJwLulfbtBaMgeDWZLgASoEvgIoirwCbBZG2 3F9UF9SwQyAmFEkAoyfP/M8= =9bWU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart81971172.v8E616xGgL--