From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 19 16:42:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2844216A420 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:42:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D17D43D82 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:41:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:41:45 +0100 id 00039832.43A6E2C9.00001A88 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:41:45 +0100 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20051219164145.GA6735@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20051219035752.GA27224@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu> <43A64DD2.8060801@jamesbailie.com> <1134976591.79728.9.camel@dracula.transylvania.net> <200512182328.38848.akbeech@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512182328.38848.akbeech@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i From: dick hoogendijk Subject: Re: flash plugin in 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:42:22 -0000 On 18 Dec Beecher Rintoul wrote: > On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:16 pm, Dev Tugnait wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 01:06 -0500, James Bailie wrote: > > > Dev Tugnait wrote: > > > > The port is not broken cvsup your tree > > > > > > Yes it is. While some things work, it still does not create the > > > proper symbolic link for the acrobat plugin, nor is the path > > > for it correct in the sample libmap.confs. Beecher's fix will correct. > > > > The only thing it doesnt do is create symbolic links which does not mark > > a port as BROKEN for one, secondly why would you remove your > > browser_plugins dir? > > That was a typo, read the followup I sent immediately following the > first message. Secondly putting plugins in browser_linux_plugins does > break firefox and mozilla. I would call that broken where I come from. > Users should not have to move things that were installed in the wrong > place. That's the job of the port. You were very quick with your correction of the typo. Faster than some of us read their mails ;-) Secondly, I totally agree to the statement that the port is "broken" You have too much to manually correct. At the time I was not aware of the facts and lost quite some time finding out. If you know, it's not that kind of a deal. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.0 +++ The Power to Serve