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Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> Thus spake Donnie Berkholz on Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:06:25AM CDT |
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>> Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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>>> Seamonkey isn't installed so it shouldn't be blocking anything. I don't want |
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>>> it installed. Mozilla _is_ installed, and I don't want to un-install it. I |
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>>> can't run this update until this is resolved. |
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>>> Should I report this as a bug? |
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>> No, seamonkey is the replacement for mozilla. The old mozilla package is |
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>> full of security holes and no longer maintained by upstream, so we're |
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>> transitioning all packages using it to either seamonkey or firefox, if |
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>> possible. |
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> Thanks, Donnie. Tobias Heinlein said I ought to use 'firefox' instead of |
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> 'mozilla' in my USE flags. Does this square with current recommended practice |
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> from the Gentoo devs? I note that unmerging mozilla nukes galeon, on which I |
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> depend. Galeon will USE firefox (which I assume provides its rendering |
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> engine), but not seamonkey. |
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Well, USE=firefox or USE=seamonkey, depending on how you want to go. |
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galeon-2.0.1-r2 at least uses seamonkey, I just looked at it. |
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> Is this issue documented anywhere? Is there a periodic newsletter to which I |
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> can subscribe which will keep me up to speed with these changes, similar to |
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> what the Debain Weekly News does for Debian? |
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There is the GWN [1]. I'm unsure whether it has published anything about |
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this. |
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> Mozilla may be old and fusty, but it's the browser that emerged like a a |
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> phoenix from the MS/Netscape "browser wars" partly as a result of Eric |
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> Raymond's famous "The Cathedral and The Bazaar" essay. I know the mozilla code |
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> is a nightmare to work with, but it's certaily a venerable piece of work and I |
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> hope, if only for that reason, that it continues to be available as an ebuild |
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> in Gentoo. |
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Seamonkey, for all intents and purposes, _is_ mozilla and will be the |
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continuation of it. The 'mozilla' ebuild will be disappearing. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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1. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml |