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Date:      Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:44:13 -0500
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Subject:   Re: linux-f10-flashplugin11 not works for 9-stable (Linuxulator?)
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Please do not double to post to emulation and ports. I have removed ports

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Given the number of people who have/had troub=
le getting Flash
>> to work, telling the average user that this is not covered by a
>> common port version checking tool would be prudent.

This is probably true but flash is not the only port with different
versions in different ports. (e.g., gcc, python, and a few others)

> Traditionally FreeBSD ports contain more than one flash version. I don't
> know where this came from, maybe the previous version was left intact unt=
il
> Adobe/Macromedia fully moves to the next one resolving incompatibility
> issues or something...

Newer versions of Flash are not supported by older versions of the linuxila=
tor

--
Eitan Adler



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