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Re: FreeBSD and epic ports: msg#00008

Subject: Re: FreeBSD and epic ports
On Sun May 29, 2005; 03:58PM -0500 Josh Paetzel propagated the following:
> The epic4 and epic5 ports on FreeBSD have an option to include in 
> SOCKS5 support.  The licensing for SOCKS5 does not allow binary 
> download.  One cannot automagically download the sources either.  You 
> have to fill out a web-based registration, download the tarball and 
> then manually put it into the /usr/ports/distfiles on your FreeBSD 
> machine.  There are other ports that get treated similar to this 
> situation.  The problem is that I can no longer find a place to 
> download the SOCKS5 sources from legitimately.
> 
> My question is this:  Do I need to move heaven and earth to get SOCKS5 
> working again, or can I simply remove the option from the port?
> 

EPIC will compile and run properly without a SOCKS5 library.  Disabling
it in the port should be just fine.

> -- 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josh Paetzel
>  
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