FreeBSD: Using Flash 10 with Skype – Linux Base 4 & 10

So in my last post I wrote about Flash 10 using the linux_base-f10. This breaks skype causing it to core dump because of the fontconfig errors. So, I tested portinstall -P skype for the fun of it. This of course spammed the linux_base-f10 already installed in /compat but I figured it was worth the shot. I expected it to break Flash 10 support, but nope. It works just fine

linux-alsa-lib-1.0.10.3_2
linux-dri-7.4_1
linux-expat-1.95.8_2
linux-f10-alsa-lib-1.0.21
linux-f10-atk-1.24.0
linux-f10-cairo-1.8.0
linux-f10-curl-7.19.4_4
linux-f10-cyrus-sasl2-2.1.22
linux-f10-expat-2.0.1
linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32
linux-f10-fontconfig-2.6.0
linux-f10-gtk2-2.14.7
linux-f10-jpeg-6b
linux-f10-libsigc++20-2.2.2
linux-f10-libssh2-0.18
linux-f10-nspr-4.7.4
linux-f10-nss-3.12.2.0
linux-f10-openldap-2.4.12_1
linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g
linux-f10-pango-1.22.3
linux-f10-png-1.2.37
linux-f10-sqlite3-3.5.9_1
linux-f10-tiff-3.8.2
linux-f10-xorg-libs-7.4_1
linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_9
linux-libsigc-2.0.17_2
linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_7
linux_base-f10-10_2
linux_base-fc-4_15
linux_dri-7.0_2

This makes me wonder, why cant make.conf handle multiple install paths based on different versions like /compat/linux-f10 and /compat/linux-fc4

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2005-March/000885.html

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