Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages

[George Shapovalov <georges@its.caltech.edu>]

Sorry, did not notice this before I posted my answer to John.
This may be a problem (see the reasons in my reply).
I agree that keeping netscape-4 as a default one is probably better for some 
time at least. Therefore a reasonable option is to create new dir (like 
netscape-6) under net-www to keep new netscape version.

George


On Friday 12 April 2002 12:40, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> No, no, no.  Netscape 4.X is still very usefull for accessing web sites
> which will not work properly with Netscape 6.X or Mozilla.  Some of the
> banks still do not consider Netscape 6.X/Mozilla as safe enough and the
> only way for me to do web banking is using Netscape 4.X.  Citibank is
> one such example.
>
> Avi
>
> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 14:25, John Dee wrote:
> > One more question I've got.
> > Would you guys be willing to replace netscape 4.x with netscape 6 as the
> > default browser?
> > Since netscape 4.x isn't really being maintained anymore (I do builds
> > once a week, blah bleh), and the 6.x line is nscp's main focus, would
> > you guys be willing to make netscape6 the default netscape browser?