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>Can you find another example?  stonx is now fetchable.

Edwin pointed to multimedia/pvr250 in his original email; I
was just suggesting that this is not a new problem; ports have had
to solve it in their own way for at least 6 years.  The general
answer seems to be creative use of IGNORE, which is so overloaded
it's just sad.

  Bill