Question about Gnome Package Install

[Robert Hish]

Ive read through the mailing list and it seems several posts hit this but 
none that i found hit it directly.

Im somewhere between newb and newb+2 so bare with me.

Ever since Gnome 2.6 came out the freebsd.org/gnome page has stated two 
seperate ways of installing gnome2.6. Via Ports or Packages. The packages 
way says to simply do a pkg_add -r and pull them down from ftp.freebsd and 
let them work their magic.
However, since 2.6 came out, and ive done this about 30 times since then, 
when ever i do a fresh install of 5.2.1, and then after building world and 
getting everything all new and fresh, i do a pkg_add -r gnome2 and i end up 
with gnome2.4 being pulled down and installed.
Its very frustrating since im fairly new and for me its a pain to track down 
everything installed and pkg_delete them and then build from ports. And this 
always gives me a bad taste with liburies and this and that left behind and 
it just doesnt seem as clean as if i just build from ports originally or 
actually had 2.6 packages being installed. or therers always the 97 hour 
long script upgrade process which always fails and leads to hours of fun 
googlin.

My question is this, and excuse me if this has since been fixed/addressed, 
why does the freebsd.org/gnome installation page say 2.6 packages can be 
installed via pkg_add when in all actuality it pulls down 2.4.
I normally would just find a way to just workaround this, but for the last 
months its been very upsetting and frustrating.

Yes, i do cvsup everything before pkg_add. Tonight i rebuild one of my 
workstations and just now have everything all nice and neat and fresh, and 
then i had to force myself to stop before going through the hell of pkg_add 
-r gnome2 (expecting 2.6 or greater) and getting 2.4.

Either this should be fixed or the web page should say packages are still 
2.4.

Ive since tried a plethora of alternative methods and some seem rather 
simple others not. The safest way seems to just build it all from ports. But 
on some of my slower machines i would rather have a quick packages install 
instead of the super batsh*t insano optimisations of source building from 
ports.

Okey, just thought i would address this and hopefully its either known, 
fixed, being worked on, or im just clueless and im doing something wrong. 
And all im really lookin for is a "were workin on it", "its been fixed", or 
"your doing X wrong, try Y".

thanks for your time and consideration

r.hish

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