Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:51:58 -0000 From: "cali" <calculus@softhome.net> To: "John" <lists@reiteration.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? Message-ID: <01b901c51d2f$b5026a70$0201a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE> 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> <20050228002300.M18063@reiteration.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "John" <lists@reiteration.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 12:38 AM Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? > 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. there is also portmanager :) cali
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