From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jan 22 15:41:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02584 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:41:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paris.dppl.com (paris.dppl.com [205.230.74.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA02578 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yds@ingress.net) Received: (qmail 50103 invoked from network); 22 Jan 1999 23:41:11 -0000 Received: from ichiban.ingress.com (HELO ichiban) (205.230.64.31) by paris.dppl.com with SMTP; 22 Jan 1999 23:41:11 -0000 Message-ID: <007801be4660$c9485c80$1f40e6cd@ichiban.ingress.com> From: "Yarema" To: "Tom Hukins" , Subject: Re: ports/9608: Linux Communicator 4.5 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:41:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Given the recent "linux version of netscape" thread on > freebsd-ports, I think it might be better to re-submit this port as > an upgrade to linux-netscape4, rather than a new port in its own > right. > > Indeed, we already have 9 Netscape ports in the tree. If there's a > good reason why this port should be separate, that's fine. IMHO, I think it's a good idea to keep them as separate ports. The email client in 4.5 is rather unstable on both FreeBSD and Windows platforms. I don't imagine the Linux version is any more stable. does it really hurt to have multiple versions in the ports tree? I like the ability to pick and choose which version I can install. my $.02 -- Yarema To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message