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RE: Up-to-date browser?



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>> The pkgsrc system gets updated approximately quarterly, so there's
>> potential for at least a 3-month lag from that, plus the time it
>> takes
>> to port updates into the framework before the cut-off for those
>> releases before that (which can be quite significant for large
>> packages like Firefox, especially considering the multi-platform
>> nature of pkgsrc), and then after the release there's the time it
>> takes to rebuild all the packages from that.  Given all these
>> factors,
>> being as much as 6 months behind "cutting edge" for even a major
>> software packages like these doesn't surprise me.

...except you are using current pkgsrc states and/or wip for your local 
software builds (like many/most working with sources and want "current" 
versions i assume).


cheerioh,


Niels.
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Niels Dettenbach
Syndicat IT&Internet
http://www.syndicat.com
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