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Yeah, unfortunately this seems to be the only route available.  Thanks to
those who responded, it's off to the source code for me.

Doug Young wrote:

> > since updating to 4.3 I've noticed that a lot of ports have been
> marked
> > broken.  For instance, reportmagic, netscape*, and GFTP.  Especially
> in
> > regards to Gftp, if a port is marked broken is that it?  No more app
> and
> > deal with it?  It's been suggested that the Makefile in the ports
> dir
> > could be modified so that the app can be installed anyway but what's
> the
> > proper thing to do as I don't want to install a port that has been
> > marked broken?  Thanks.
> >
> I've been experiencing similar problems since I started using CVSUP in
> 4.2 &
> even after installing 4.3 RELEASE the problems continue. In most cases
> it
> appears to related to missing libraries or incompatible dependency.
> (eg I think
> its Webmin that insists on SSLeay but even though that was supposed to
> have
> been replaced by the OpenSSH thats included in default 4.3, the Webmin
> port
> isn't smart enough to know that. One of the experts told me about a
> workaround
> that seems to work, but I dunno that "workarounds" should be regarded
> as best
> practice.
>
> Now when I find something I  want is broken / verboten / whatever I've
> been going
> to the homepage for the particular application, grabbing the source &
> compiling that.
> I suspect that may not be 100% kosher, but so far every one I've done
> that way
> has worked properly  (fingers crossed) :)
>
> >
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