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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:09:14 -0500
From:      Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/firefox Makefile distinfo pkg-descrpkg-message mozconfig.in patch-Double.cpp	patch-build_unix_run-mozilla
Message-ID:  <402B7AFA.8040606@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040212102842.GC3148@FreeBSD.org>
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Eivind Eklund wrote:

> At least 99% of the people that still run 4.6 and want to run firefox
> will already have REINPLACE installed.  The argument for "less
> dependencies" is thus for an extreme minority case, and it is IMO not
> one we should take particular care for anyway.  We *want* people to
> upgrade, so the net avoids exposure to old versions etc.
> 
> My advice: Just accept the use of perl as a mistake, fix it, and move
> on.
> 
> Eivind.

And we could be fretting over an empty set.  I'm wondering if anyone 
that is running 4.6 as their base would upload a bleeding edge browser 
(regardless of its stability).  I doubt there are many.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman@mindspring.com

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