linux-flashplayer running

[Chuck Robey]

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Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:43:42 -0600, Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh, I'm in trouble now.  I was getting a bit frustrated, because all the
> different names that my browsers hide under, and the fact that 2 other
> items
> confuse things:
> 
> 1) the config dirs aren't always named after the program, and
> 
>> Please complain it to the developers that create this program. It wasn't
>> our idea.
> 
> 2) the G_D_ ports often installed things into /usr/local/ even for linux
> things, and other times into /compat, and that terribly screws things up.
> 
>> I don't know what 'G_D_ ports' is.

Sorry, it's not my job to interpret, and it's rather small of you to think so
(LOL).

> 
> Why am I complaining?  Because now, for Linux-firefox, I do have the
> flashplayer.9 working, but with all the screwing around I couldn't
> duplicate
> it.  The problem was initially the flashplayer, because the version
> in  ports
> no longer even exists.  I went to the Adobe site, and just got the
> latest.
> Then, the version of libdl that Linux-firefox wants is not only different
> thanthe version that the flashplayer wants, they (I think) aren't always
> looking in the same dir for it.
> 
> Whatever, it CAN be done, because I did it.
> 
> Boy, I wish that the portsmeisters would (once and for all, plublicly)
> decide
> that linux libs have to install into the /compat/linux tree.  If they
> would go
> on record for that, I would begin fixing ports to obey it.  Can't do
> that now.
> 
>> I see all Linux libraries that I have installed are in /compat/linux/*
>> by ports tree. If it doesn't in your case, then please complain to the
>> right maintainer.

Actually (and I have complained about it recently, but you must have missed
it) you assertion that all ports follow thatplacement rule is absolutely
false.  How did you happen to come to that conclusion?  Because you saw one do
that?  Or, because you found some written rule, and you assumed it was being
followed?  You need to be at least a little more thorough in checking the
truth, when making these statements, because it's being flouted by more than
just a few Linux ports.

Anyhow, what I was after was getting the folks who have the say so (those in
ports control, and also ports committers) to make a public decision that the
method of file layout i am asking for is in fact the only one that is
approved.  Like I say in my post, if this were put into a post, I would point
to it, when I get busy correcting various ports which currently do not follow
that rule.  I need the public support before I try to correct things.  I'm
willing to do the work, but not willing to fight the battle, so things will
remain the way they are until I get a ruling on this.

> 
>> Not single of your complains have to do with freebsd-multimedia at .

Is implementing Flash on Linux-firefox a multimedia topic?  I think so, and if
this request isn't acted upon, sooner or later, things will not be improved
(at least not by me).

I don't know why you're so angry, but I don't think anything *I* did is the cause.

> 
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
> 
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