Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:15:49 -0500 From: "Sean Cavanaugh" <Millenia2000@hotmail.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, "Saifi Khan" <saifi.khan@twincling.org> Cc: GrimJow Espada <grimjow.espada@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hi Message-ID: <BAY126-DS5175D596F8F646C8FBE59CAAF0@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <87ljryccm0.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <9ef7e7380902220154t74657d52uc9497c77672b79f8@mail.gmail.com><9a52b1190902220711u65e38320t97ca56547bef246d@mail.gmail.com> <87ljryccm0.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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instead of editors/pico, try editors/nano -------------------------------------------------- From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 5:48 PM To: "Saifi Khan" <saifi.khan@twincling.org> Cc: "GrimJow Espada" <grimjow.espada@gmail.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hi > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:46 +0000, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org> > wrote: >> Gentoo userland and emerge tools are easier and elegant though not >> certainly superior to FreeBSD make mechanism. This is based on my >> personal experience as i heavily use Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD on older >> hardware. And offcourse, i can easily emerge pine 4.64 on Gentoo but >> there is no way i can do it on FreeBSD. > > You can always check out `ports/mail/pine4' from a date before its > removal from the ports/ tree and build it on FreeBSD too. If you need > help with maintaining a local copy of the relevant ports (`mail/pine4', > `mail/pine4-ssl', and `editors/pico') let me know and I'll write a short > mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building > them as local ports. > > The source for these ports is no longer maintained, and they may pose a > security risk if you use them on multi-user machines --- especially if > untrusted users have local shell access --- but if you want to shoot > your foot, the Ports tree already provides gun & ammo to do that :-) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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