Obsolete Ports for firefox-x11 and thunderbird-x11

Johannes Kastl mail at ojkastl.de
Thu Jan 9 08:31:52 PST 2014


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On 09.01.14 16:23 Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> What benefit would you get from having updated versions of these
> ports, that you would not get by downloading the pre-compiled
> binaries from the developer’s web site? The previous maintainer of
> these ports gave up because it was an enormous amount of work to
> build these complicated software packages. There would have to be a
> good reason for someone to continue to invest that amount of time.

The only benefit I could see would be, that you get the updates as
soon as you upgrade your ports, even before you open Firefox on that
machine.

But its questionable if this is worth the effort, I agree.

Regards,
Johannes
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