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Date:      Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:32:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Daniel Valencia <fetrovsky@yahoo.com>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: print/acroread7 on amd64
Message-ID:  <20060209183211.21751.qmail@web53909.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060209081250.kr5mzudfc4okowsk@netchild.homeip.net>

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than you all very much for your comments and suggestions, installing linux-gtk2 and then acroread7 worked very well... odd, since I would've thought acroread7 would install linux-gtk2 properly if needed...
 
 Thanks!
 
 - Daniel
 

Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> wrote: "Julian H. Stacey"  wrote:

> Several Things: (& as this is a general answer ti's applicable to other
>   new folk who may care to read on)

In the general case I agree, but in this specific case I have to add some
comments...

> 2) mail `grep MAINTAINER 
> /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/print/acroread7`
>  rather than mailing the list
>   that's trevor@FreeBSD.org who I added to the CC

Trevor is not very responsive. Have a look at the PR's which are assigned to
Trevor and how long there's absolutely no trace of action from his side.

Not mailing the maintainer (by intend or not) *in this case* was right. I
even think I will play devil's advocate and give back some of Trevor's ports
(at least those with an open PR without feedback from Trevor) back to ports@.
A maintainer timeout of ~5 months justifies this.

Hey Trevor, this is a "please speak up" for you!

> 4) Cruise the source of a previous distribvution, eg gtk2
>   looking for URLs for wherever they store their current stuff.

Doesn't help in this case, it's a bug in acroread7 and/or bsd.port.mk
(depending on your POV). The suggestion in another mail to just install
linux-gtk2 by hand is the work-around which has to be used here.

Bye,
Alexander.

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