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From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
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> > For years I've used and endorsed ezjail, but as stated, it is depreciated.

Hmm, there's no notation at
http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=sysutils&portname=ezjail ,
nor in the Makefile AFAICT.

> > For a book, excluding ezjail would exclude a huge portion of the user base
> > and seems like it would hurt credibility given its dominance as the
> > preferred tool for jail administration.
> >
> 
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:54:50PM -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> Maybe is something obvious to the more technical crowd but as a user what
> does "depreciated" mean in this context?

Really the word most people use is "deprecated" rather than "depreciated".

It can mean any number of things:

 - it no longer works due to changes in other software
 - it has been replaced by something else
 - the author is no longer interested in maintaining it

and so forth.

I don't know the answer in this case.

mcl