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

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=281837

--- Comment #42 from Sean McBride <sean@rogue-research.com> ---
>Being able to use an operating system for day to day desktop tasks is an important use case for younger talent deciding if they want to learn freebsd, which is required for maintaining a healthy freebsd software ecosystem on server.

I agree completely.

>... this is *the currently working method* of running *current* 32-bit linux applications on current hardware, on current freebsd.

I see. Indeed I had misunderstood it being about 32 bit hardware, sorry about
that.

>These warnings make users yell inappropriately...

Not sure it's so inappropriate honestly, after all, what you're saying is that
the current best method is based on a dead upstream (CentOS 7). That's far from
ideal. But understandably not easy to fix.

But this ticket is about the docs, and I for one have no objection to them
being clarified further to point out those deprecated packages are the only way
for this use case.

Fernando Apesteguía your new text lgtm.

>Some people install linux emulation to run things that can be run in 64 bits mode

That was the case for me.  I used linux_base-c7 because it was the first thing
listed in the handbook.  It was only thanks to pkg giving the deprecation
warning that I knew to look for something newer.

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