From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 27 16:20:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7B737B75A; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:20:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA18174; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:20:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:20:27 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Will Andrews Cc: Doug Barton , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Satoshi Asami , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QUICK RESPONCE NEEDED: Netscape 4.72 handling In-Reply-To: <20000227191320.B21819@shadow.blackdawn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Will Andrews wrote: # I honestly do not see any reason why knobs cannot be added to the ports # to allow U.S. security features, or whatever. I also don't see any point The problem with making strong encryption a knob is the same reason you state below. We won't have the packages for them anymore and Mr. O'Brien will probably be a mite bit upset over that. :) # in prefixing the names with "netscape". I would go even farther as to # put the Linux option as a knob, but I feel that we would lose the # packages for the Linux versions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message