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Date:      Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:10:16 +0000
From:      RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removing a port without upsetting dependencies
Message-ID:  <200512120210.17457.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
In-Reply-To: <200512110916.28583.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au>
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On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:46, Ian Moore wrote:
> Hi,
> I have mplayer installed and at one stage I installed the mplayer-skins
> port as well. Then I got sick of dealing with the skins port being broken a
> lot because the source files are often unfetchable, so I removed the port
> (I can't remember what method I used to do that now).

A much better solution is to:

 cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer-skins && make config

then deselect everything, but the default skin. 

Since I did that I haven't had any problem with unfetchable skins.






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