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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:15:35 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hi
Message-ID:  <87mycd847c.fsf@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <49a20440.oqh9j8d04xp6dYo8%perryh@pluto.rain.com> (perryh@pluto.rain.com's message of "Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:04:48 -0800")
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:04:48 -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> You can always check out ... from a date before its removal from
>> the ports/ tree ...  If you need help with maintaining a local
>> copy of the relevant ports ...  let me know and I'll write a short
>> mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and
>> building them as local ports.
>
> This sounds as if it would make a good Handbook section.

Documenting such local 'hacks' in the Handbook is a bit like rubber
stamping them with the official 'recommended by FreeBSD' seal of
approval.  I am not sure I would like that a lot.  Serious security
problems may exist in stale, unmaintained ports.  It would be a bit
bad to make it sound like the entire FreeBSD project approves and even
recommends this sort of thing.




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