From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 00:30:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6687016A4D0 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:30:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shell.reiteration.net (82-34-179-228.cable.ubr01.sout.blueyonder.co.uk [82.34.179.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13CE343D55 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:30:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@reiteration.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=reiteration.net) by shell.reiteration.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1D5Yvy-000Nf1-D0 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:38:50 +0000 From: "John" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:38:48 +0000 Message-Id: <20050228002300.M18063@reiteration.net> In-Reply-To: <663804712.20050228005329@wanadoo.fr> References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> <20050227210242.M8232@reiteration.net> <173258071.20050227231351@wanadoo.fr> <20050227225244.M6494@reiteration.net> <663804712.20050228005329@wanadoo.fr> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.50 20050106 X-OriginatingIP: 192.168.1.7 (jfm) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: lists@reiteration.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shell.reiteration.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:30:58 -0000 On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:53:29 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote > Unless the OS is a Swiss cheese of bugs, constant updating is not > necessary. If the OS is so insecure that you must constantly update > just to stay ahead of the kiddies, it's time to think of installing a > different OS. Were we discussing the OS? I thought we were discussing ports in general and firefox in particular. Ports have seperate security issues; they are not part of the OS, hence the security message displayed after any port is installed. Constant *vigilance* is neccesary - whether or not you update depends on the situation and the reason. In my earlier posts I was just trying to indicate how easy this would be with portupgrade. Now I find that there's something even easier called porteasy, and you apparently don't need the entire ports tree to use it. this system is great :) so many different ways of accomplishing the same goal. -- lists@reiteration.net