The i386 navigator and communicator pkgsrc packages can use the
 macromedia 'flash' plugin to display shockwave enabled web pages.
 
 I have a quick patch that updates the communicator package to
 automatically install the appropriate libflashplayer.so on i386.
 This adds approx 248K to a 30MB package.

 I've mailed macromedia to see if there are any distribution
 issues, but I'm curious as to what people believe the best
 option is:

 a) Update communicator and navigator packages to automatically
    include flash on i386.
  Easiest, it Just Works, but means users cannot install
  on i386 _without_ flash. Also means if both communicator
  and naviagator are installed, both have seperate flash.

 b) Update only communicator as it is the 'kitchen sink' install.

 c) Add a new 'ns-flash' package.
  Much more extensible in the long run. Would want to share
  plugin dir between communicator and navigator, and would
  also want to depend on _either_ navigator and communicator
  package (I don't know if we can do this?)

 So... a) or b) are easy, c) is a can of worms :)

 I currently favour 'b)'.

 Thoughts?


 For non i386 users - apologies. At some point I'm sure we'll
 switch the sparc port across to the solaris netscape binary
 at which point the solaris flash plugin will work. None of this
 helps my arm32 box :/

  David/absolute

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