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From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Seamonkey vs Mozilla cage match round two
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:44:07
Message-Id: 20061119004207.GA16779@crowfix.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Seamonkey vs Mozilla cage match round two by Homer Parker
1 On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 04:35:43PM -0600, Homer Parker wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 06:46 -0800, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
3
4 > > I use mozilla without javascript, java, etc, which probably eliminates
5 > > most of the security problems.
6 >
7 > Ok, you use it like that. I bet there are people that don't though and
8 > the mozilla team doesn't have the time/resources to fix the security
9 > problems, and upstream has dropped support. If you want to continue to
10 > use it with those problems, great... Dump it in your overlay and use
11 > it.. Just remember it's unsupported and has security problems and if it
12 > breaks you get to keep both pieces ;)
13
14 I will have to stop using it someday, and I won't bother with an
15 overlay. But last time I tried seamonkey it was unstable unreliable
16 junk. What I want to understand is why seamonkey and mozilla can't
17 coexist. They have different names, but even if they didn't, there
18 are slots for apache and apache2, as many different kernels as you
19 could possibly want, and ... mozilla and seamonkey conflict with each
20 other. Why?
21
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24 Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com
25 GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933
26 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Seamonkey vs Mozilla cage match round two "Michael Weyershäuser" <thedude0001@×××.de>
[gentoo-amd64] Re: Seamonkey vs Mozilla cage match round two Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>