www/flashpluginwrapper

[Adam Weinberger]

>> (02.18.2004 @ 0628 PST): Simon Barner said, in 1.3K: <<
> Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > Please reconsider removing flashpluginwrapper. I find it ludicrous that
> > I should have to manually apply a patch every time I want to update my
> > system. As flashpluginwrapper works, there is no harm in allowing it to
> > remain in the tree until such time as -STABLE actually support
> > linuxpluginwrapper.
> > 
> > This port is not deprecated. It is still of use to those of us who don't
> > wish to be manually applying patches to src all the time.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think you are referring to the libmap patch, that had to applied
> manually to FreeBSD -stable, before libmap had been MFC'ed on Feb 3rd:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/libexec/rtld-elf/libmap.c
> 
> So, I guess that's the reason why flashpluginwrapper was marked
> deprecated. Perhaps the comment in the Makefile should be a bit more
> verbose and mention that libmap in -stable >= 490102.
> 
> Simon
>> end of "Re: www/flashpluginwrapper" from Simon Barner <<

Heh.

gg

I absolutely think it should be updated.

Additionally, I think that flashpluginwrapper should _still_ not be
removed, though. Aren't we supposed to include support for systems older
than 2 weeks?

# Adam


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