Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-14 Thread Da Rock
On 10/13/13 17:38, Thomas Mueller wrote: On the question of playing Adobe Flash in FreeBSD, could one use the MS-Windows 32-bit version with (i386-)Wine? I plan to try that. Apparently that won't solve much. The primary issue now with watching flash movies is the drm - on linux it somehow

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
On the question of playing Adobe Flash in FreeBSD, could one use the MS-Windows 32-bit version with (i386-)Wine? I plan to try that. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 05:31:56 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:54:24 -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: On 10/11/13 5:38 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 I want ONE shared lib; i.e. rsvg.so, which is provided by x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-12 Thread gct7photography
I don't know what others think, but what *I* really want is that the free software versions of Flash (gnash and klash, etc) work at least as well as versions of Adobe Flash do, or if versions of Adobe Flash are to be used, that it will be free and covered by the GPL. Its unlikely to happen unless

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:28:40 +0100, gct7photogra...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know what others think, but what *I* really want is that the free software versions of Flash (gnash and klash, etc) work at least as well as versions of Adobe Flash do, or if versions of Adobe Flash are to be used,

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 04:48 +0200, Polytropon wrote: Let's hope people are going to get smarter than I assume. :-) It's new, not even 100 years old. Within our lifetimes people likely become more stupid, but yes, it will take some generations and people will get smarter.

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-11 Thread Glenn Sieb
On 10/11/13 5:38 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 I want ONE shared lib; i.e. rsvg.so, which is provided by x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that going the normal route I shall have to install 80! ports to get it. Is there an easier way? Actually I think you

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-11 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:54:24 -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote: On 10/11/13 5:38 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 I want ONE shared lib; i.e. rsvg.so, which is provided by x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that going the normal route I shall have to install 80!