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From: Michael Moore <mikem.unet@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:36:35
Message-Id: 20081118164454.GA8575@beastie.linwin
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox? by Qian Qiao
1 On 15:25 Tue 18 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote:
2 > The in the ebuild:
3 >
4 > >=media-video/gnome-mplayer-0.6.2
5 > || ( =net-libs/xulrunner-1.8*
6 > =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2*
7 > =www-client/seamonkey-1*
8 > www-client/epiphany )
9 >
10 > So if you don't want =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2*, you can use
11 > >=media-video/gnome-mplayer-0.6.2, or =www-client/seamonkey-1* or
12 > www-client/epiphany or net-libs/xulrunner-1.8*.
13 >
14 > HTH
15 >
16 > Joe
17 >
18 > --
19 > There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and
20 > those who can't.
21
22 Thanks for the reply.
23
24 However, my reason for removing firefox was its heaviness. Considering
25 that xulrunner is quite heavy as well, is it possible to use the
26 xulrunner-bin package to provide the RDEPEND ?
27
28 --
29
30 Regards,
31 Michael Moore <mikem.unet(at)gmail.com>
32 About *NIX: If its not fun, why do it?

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