Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:45:39 +0000 From: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> To: jkh@osd.bsdi.com, nate@yogotech.com Cc: jtm63@enteract.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, will@physics.purdue.edu Subject: Re: end of 3-stable support Message-ID: <E14Y535-0002qZ-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010227143851C.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Well, in those cases I guess our hapless user is simply screwed. > Let's just hope he doesn't need to run any of the applications > maintained by such people. Why cant he just get the complied package from freebsd.org ? It's not as if they are removing them (which is how you seem to interpret it) but merely that newer versions of the packages will only build on newer versions of the operating system. Which seems reasonable enough to me. -pete french. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?E14Y535-0002qZ-00>