Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:38:48 +0000 From: "John" <lists@reiteration.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? Message-ID: <20050228002300.M18063@reiteration.net> In-Reply-To: <663804712.20050228005329@wanadoo.fr> References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEIMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> <20050227210242.M8232@reiteration.net> <173258071.20050227231351@wanadoo.fr> <20050227225244.M6494@reiteration.net> <663804712.20050228005329@wanadoo.fr>
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:53:29 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote > Unless the OS is a Swiss cheese of bugs, constant updating is not > necessary. If the OS is so insecure that you must constantly update > just to stay ahead of the kiddies, it's time to think of installing a > different OS. Were we discussing the OS? I thought we were discussing ports in general and firefox in particular. Ports have seperate security issues; they are not part of the OS, hence the security message displayed after any port is installed. Constant *vigilance* is neccesary - whether or not you update depends on the situation and the reason. In my earlier posts I was just trying to indicate how easy this would be with portupgrade. Now I find that there's something even easier called porteasy, and you apparently don't need the entire ports tree to use it. this system is great :) so many different ways of accomplishing the same goal. -- lists@reiteration.net
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