From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 2 13: 7:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inconnu.isu.edu (inconnu.isu.edu [134.50.8.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C59D37B423 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 13:07:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (galt@localhost) by inconnu.isu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA24462; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:06:31 -0600 Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 14:06:31 -0600 (MDT) From: John Galt To: Dan Nelson Cc: Mike Meyer , rob , Johannes Zwart , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not XEmacs, after all? In-Reply-To: <20000902145603.A28852@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So why is it still forbidden in a fresh download? I have my own reasons for downloading what I did, but until the un-forbid fix propagates, I still stand by my statement: it was once deprecated, and there's still a ports tree you can download today wherein you can't install lynx, so it is still at least in part deprecated. On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 02), John Galt said: > > Bullmerde! 4.0 pulled a week ago from ftp install, on a brand new > > machine. cd /usr/ports/lynx;make install I get a error stating that > > lynx has a few security holes in it. It's deprecated. > > Why in the world are you installing 4.0 instead of 4.1? 4.0 was > released in March, and back then, lynx _was_ insecure, so the ports > tree that came with 4.0 had it marked as insecure. The bugs have long > since been fixed, and if you would update your ports tree, either with > cvsup or by going to http://www.freebsd.org/ports, you would notice > that it's no longer marked FORBIDDEN. > > -- When you are having a bad day, and it seems like everybody is trying to tick you off, remember that it takes 42 muscles to produce a frown, but only 4 muscles to work the trigger of a good sniper rifle. Who is John galt? Galt@inconnu.isu.edu, that's who! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message