Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Qian Qiao <qian.qiao@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:45:17
Message-Id: c3d5f3800811180845m72035f68l81fe6ab24a4b513b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox? by Michael Moore
1 On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 16:44, Michael Moore <mikem.unet@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 15:25 Tue 18 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote:
3 >> The in the ebuild:
4 >>
5 >> >=media-video/gnome-mplayer-0.6.2
6 >> || ( =net-libs/xulrunner-1.8*
7 >> =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2*
8 >> =www-client/seamonkey-1*
9 >> www-client/epiphany )
10 >>
11 >> So if you don't want =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2*, you can use
12 >> >=media-video/gnome-mplayer-0.6.2, or =www-client/seamonkey-1* or
13 >> www-client/epiphany or net-libs/xulrunner-1.8*.
14 >>
15 >
16 > Thanks for the reply.
17 >
18 > However, my reason for removing firefox was its heaviness. Considering
19 > that xulrunner is quite heavy as well, is it possible to use the
20 > xulrunner-bin package to provide the RDEPEND ?
21
22 By the look of the ebuild, it doesn't look like it wants xulrunner-bin.
23
24 --
25 There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and
26 those who can't.

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