jb_fvwm2, metaports too have their packages. How would you install the entire Xorg, GNOME, Xfce, etc. from packages otherwise (other than installing everything manually of course)?
And the gnome2.tbz package exists (for i386 at least).
toweris, as I said in my last post, the package doesn't seem to exist for the AMD64 architecture. Do you get the same error with other packages? Also can you run the
% fetch [noparse]ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/Latest/gnome2.tbz[/noparse]
command on your shell successfully?