Re: [gentoo-desktop] Mozilla, seamonkey ??

[Lindsay Haisley]

Thus spake Donnie Berkholz on Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:06:25AM CDT
> Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> > Seamonkey isn't installed so it shouldn't be blocking anything.  I don't want
> > it installed.  Mozilla _is_ installed, and I don't want to un-install it.  I
> > can't run this update until this is resolved.
> >
> > Should I report this as a bug?
>
> No, seamonkey is the replacement for mozilla. The old mozilla package is
> full of security holes and no longer maintained by upstream, so we're
> transitioning all packages using it to either seamonkey or firefox, if
> possible.

Thanks, Donnie.  Tobias Heinlein said I ought to use 'firefox' instead of 
'mozilla' in my USE flags.  Does this square with current recommended practice 
from the Gentoo devs?  I note that unmerging mozilla nukes galeon, on which I 
depend.  Galeon will USE firefox (which I assume provides its rendering 
engine), but not seamonkey.

Is this issue documented anywhere?  Is there a periodic newsletter to which I 
can subscribe which will keep me up to speed with these changes, similar to 
what the Debain Weekly News does for Debian?

Mozilla may be old and fusty, but it's the browser that emerged like a a 
phoenix from the MS/Netscape "browser wars" partly as a result of Eric 
Raymond's famous "The Cathedral and The Bazaar" essay.  I know the mozilla code 
is a nightmare to work with, but it's certaily a venerable piece of work and I 
hope, if only for that reason, that it continues to be available as an ebuild 
in Gentoo.

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