[Bug 281837] Handbook "CentOS Base System from FreeBSD Packages" recommends deprecated packages

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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:24:37 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=281837

--- Comment #36 from Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@runbox.com> ---
Opening up with warning boxes makes everyone complain loudly, that is the cause
of this in the first place, not any actual security breaches. By being more
explicit about CentOS 7, and even using the word deprecated, the user should
understand that is ancient and obviously not recieving updates. Similar to how
we provide ftp support. It is for compat, and people know it is for compat, and
it is an amazing feature that helps people for that.

```
"FreeBSD provides the deprecated CentOS 7 userland for running 32-bit Linux
applications.  To install the CentOS 7 userland execute the following command:"
```

Look at what we did with sysexits for example. The functionality is described
first:

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysexits&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+15.0-CURRENT&arch=default&format=html

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