From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 00:51:12 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 267A516A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:51:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sun13.bham.ac.uk (sun13.bham.ac.uk [147.188.128.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB86943D58 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:51:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from calculus@softhome.net) Received: from [147.188.128.127] (helo=bham.ac.uk) by sun13.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1D5Z7v-00028K-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:51:11 +0000 Received: from sci-fs1.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.118.71]) by bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5Z7u-0003Wj-Sc for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:51:10 +0000 Received: from SPECULUSHX1THE not authenticated [147.188.140.100] Novell NetWare; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:51:10 +0000 Message-ID: <01b901c51d2f$b5026a70$0201a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE> From: "cali" To: "John" , 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> <20050228002300.M18063@reiteration.net> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:51:58 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-BHAM-CUBE-wlist: LOCAL sci-fs1.bham.ac.uk X-BHAM-CUBE-processed: yes 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 00:51:12 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "John" To: Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 12:38 AM Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? > 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. there is also portmanager :) cali