From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 23 16:24:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from bsa-1-as01-7-a54.gd.uol.com.br (bsa-1-as01-7-a54.gd.uol.com.br [200.197.118.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F4537B9CA for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:24:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lioux@uol.com.br) Received: (qmail 1005 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Jul 2000 23:24:21 -0000 From: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:23:59 -0300 To: SADA Kenji Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, trevor@jpj.net, girgen@partitur.se, obrien@NUXI.com, lioux@uol.com.br Subject: Re: Kill Netscape us ports and version 4.08. (was Re: Netscape browsers us versions avail. abroad) Message-ID: <20000723202359.B901@Fedaykin.here> References: <200007231554.AAA89214@home.bsdclub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200007231554.AAA89214@home.bsdclub.org>; from sada@bsdclub.org on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:53:42AM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:53:42AM +0900, SADA Kenji wrote: > Netscape ports users and maintainers, > > I'm planning to use c/n-v474-us.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz > as distfiles of www/netscape47-c/n ports. > In other words, Netscape us ports would be removed. > > Also I'm planning to remove Netscape-4.08 ports and make > www/netscape47-c as MASTERDIR. Anyone needs those ports today ? I think we should upgrade everything to 4.74. However, we should provide some alternative to the 128-bit dilema as pointed out by Mr. Trevor. Perhaps, we could keep 4.73 as an option with a security warning: please check netscape site for alternatives on how to bypass the security problems :). As per the 4.08 ports, I do not have an opinion. Regards, Mario Ferreira To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message