Re: The truth about net-im/ymessenger

2006-11-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 09:48:38AM -0800, Eric P. Scott wrote: > >This is not enough; since it is a 4.x binary it is linked against 4.x > >versions of those libraries, and if you try and run the binary on a > >modern version of FreeBSD then it will fail, since those libraries are > >incompatible wi

Re: The truth about net-im/ymessenger

2006-11-23 Thread Eric P. Scott
>This is not enough; since it is a 4.x binary it is linked against 4.x >versions of those libraries, and if you try and run the binary on a >modern version of FreeBSD then it will fail, since those libraries are >incompatible with their 4.x analogues. I just want to make it clear we're talking abo

Re: The truth about net-im/ymessenger

2006-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:06:29PM -0800, Eric P. Scott wrote: > It's been deprecated under somewhat false pretenses. :-) > > The current port is set to IGNORE, claiming [it] "is a dynamically > linked binary linked to old version of gtkhtml no longer in ports." > > PR# 91491 alleged "The Yahoo!

Re: The truth about net-im/ymessenger

2006-11-22 Thread Lane
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:06, Eric P. Scott wrote: > It's been deprecated under somewhat false pretenses. :-) > > The current port is set to IGNORE, claiming [it] "is a dynamically > linked binary linked to old version of gtkhtml no longer in ports." > > PR# 91491 alleged "The Yahoo! messen

The truth about net-im/ymessenger

2006-11-22 Thread Eric P. Scott
It's been deprecated under somewhat false pretenses. :-) The current port is set to IGNORE, claiming [it] "is a dynamically linked binary linked to old version of gtkhtml no longer in ports." PR# 91491 alleged "The Yahoo! messenger port doesn't work on FreeBSD-4.11," and submitted what I conside