On 2000-03-18 (Tomorrow) at 11:24 +0900, Henry Nelson typed:
| > Module: lynx/lynx-current/lynx-ssl/ja-lynx/ja-lynx-current
|
| What exactly do these things refer to? Could be any version of Lynx out
| there, and compiled in any manner with any configure options available.
True, and not "part" of FreeBSD. Who sent the message to KW
said they're "ports", and the guy didn't told Tom which version
he was using. Seems to be like Debian's packages or Red Hat's
contrib. Well, "official" packages can also be compiled in any
manner. I recall RedHat's official Lynx being released with an
incorrect versioning number, always linked against slang,
configured to show their site or a local copy as STARTFILE (:P)
etc.
| Things like "ssl" and "ja" are particularly suspicious.
Why? Ports with SSL and Kanji (?) support?
| I wouldn't use them either; who knows if they are really
| lynx or not, or if lynx, how it has been hacked.
I wouldn't recommend them for any production machine, and would
never use it at home. I may be wrong (I don't use FreeBSD), but
RedHat's contrib and Debian's (~# apt-get ...) packages aren't
really trustworthy. If FreeBSD's "ports" are better, only
trying.
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