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Old 16th October 2010
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Originally Posted by BSDfan666 View Post
To further clarify, but are you sure the port has vulnerabilities? according to this guys site he's going to be maintaining this official port.. it isn't being pulled directly from the chromium site but his own where he rolled his own distfile.

Do you believe he isn't backporting security/stability fixes for "free" users? because it certainly looks like that's his plan.

http://chromium.hybridsource.org/issues
Yeah I'm sure. Btw. did you read the quote above? Certainly not .. it's the answer from the patch-developer.

>If you don't want to pay the guy then you have other options available

As I said, I have no problem with paid development. But the portstree is no appstore. So if he wants to get paid, then he should push his port to a _final_ status and then submit it to the portstree.

I already spoke with different people from FreeBSD about this matter and they find it at least bewildering.

Again, I asked the guy about his agenda regarding this port and you'll find his answer in the quote above or if you're following this url to the PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/146302

>Roll up your sleeves and start working on porting the latest Chromium code to FreeBSD, submit an updated port.

Btw. I don't think you really get it. I don't want Chromium, but this port is a big mistake and the portstree is the wrong place for a paid development a la "Microsoft Windows shareware".
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