From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 16:12:15 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 A767C1065672 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:12:15 +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 1787B8FC17 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:12:14 +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 n1NGBwWG029183 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:12:04 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n1NGBvof003752; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:11:57 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n1NGBt4W003751; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:11:55 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Wojciech Puchar References: <9ef7e7380902220154t74657d52uc9497c77672b79f8@mail.gmail.com> <9a52b1190902220711u65e38320t97ca56547bef246d@mail.gmail.com> <87ljryccm0.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20090223081921.V71718@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:11:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090223081921.V71718@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> (Wojciech Puchar's message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET)") Message-ID: <87prh9ku9g.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: n1NGBwWG029183 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 , Saifi Khan , 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: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:12:16 -0000 On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> 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 :-) > > alpine works fine I know. That's why I am not in favor of maintaining pine4 *in* the Ports tree. If someone wants to blow their foot off, however, then it's fine with me, as long as they know what they are doing when they point the "cvs update" gun backwards in time :)