From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GlYoY-0005r5-Rt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:37:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAIMZkaS019586; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:35:46 GMT Received: from mail.pcsrvc.com (webmail.pcsrvc.com [24.225.5.124]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAIMZken012020 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:35:46 GMT Received: from laptop (linux.homershut.net [24.225.5.125]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.pcsrvc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E0ED25BC for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:35:45 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Seamonkey vs Mozilla cage match round two From: Homer Parker To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20061118144602.GA28579@crowfix.com> References: <20061118072026.GA12976@crowfix.com> <455EBA11.3080108@gmx.de> <20061118144602.GA28579@crowfix.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:35:43 -0600 Message-Id: <1163889344.9260.3.camel@laptop> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8fb37086-4cd9-4b08-8fd3-41a123b62492 X-Archives-Hash: b2ced07d255dc982d4c167ea82d0c7e0 On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 06:46 -0800, felix@crowfix.com wrote: > > Another thing you should be aware of: As development (and even > > bugfixing) for Mozilla has ceased quite a while ago the last release > has > > a number of security bugs that are well known and wide open. Any > program > > using parts of Mozilla are therefor vulnerable as well. For that > reason > > you shouldn't be using Mozilla and instead switch over to Firefox or > > Seamonkey. It will be removed from the tree sooner rather than > later. > > I use mozilla without javascript, java, etc, which probably eliminates > most of the security problems. Ok, you use it like that. I bet there are people that don't though and the mozilla team doesn't have the time/resources to fix the security problems, and upstream has dropped support. If you want to continue to use it with those problems, great... Dump it in your overlay and use it.. Just remember it's unsupported and has security problems and if it breaks you get to keep both pieces ;) -- Homer Parker -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list