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Subject: Re: Getting flash working with Firefox
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Clint Olsen wrote:
> Not to sound ungrateful, but why does one have to do all this gobbledy 
> gook in order to get flash working?

Because Macromedia haven't made a FreeBSD-native flash plugin.

>  After reading the port and this 
> stuff, I still don't know what in the heck to do.

Then you probably shouldn't attempt this on the basis that you could 
very well hose your entire system as a result.  Go yell at Macromedia 
for not providing a FreeBSD-native plugin.

>  I thought the point 
> of the ports system is to make this stuff easier not bake cookies.

It is.  It does.  I don't know how much simpler things could get than 
'pkg_add gnome2', for example.

Dealing with cross-platform issues, however, requires a reasonable 
amount of effort.

Sometimes even on the part of those that use the port or package.

Of course, you could always help out by asking Macromedia to produce a 
FreeBSD-native plugin.

-aDe