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From: Thomas Matthijs <axxo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] browserplugin vs. nsplugin
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:49:21
Message-Id: 20051018144615.GA9150@ytpme.telenet.be
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] browserplugin vs. nsplugin by Aron Griffis
1 * Aron Griffis (agriffis@g.o) wrote:
2 > Back in July the Java team proposed fixing its ebuilds to respect the
3 > USE=browserplugin instead of USE=mozilla, a worthwhile change. During
4 > the course of the discussion, it became clear that the existing
5 > USE=nsplugin was more appropriate.
6 >
7 > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@l.g.o/msg02898.html
8 >
9 > Unfortunately the discussion stagnated and the Java team went ahead
10 > with their original suggestion.
11 >
12 > At this point I think it would still be worthwhile to repair these
13 > ebuilds to respect USE=nsplugin and drop the browserplugin from
14 > use.local.desc. Comments?
15
16 We had discussed it prior and then nobody seemed to object to
17 browserplugin, only after we changed it.
18
19 You have the java herd's blessing to go ahead and change it.
20 Please announce it to gentoo-java@ aswell when you make the change.
21
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23 Thomas Matthijs (axxo, knu)
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] browserplugin vs. nsplugin Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] browserplugin vs. nsplugin "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] browserplugin vs. nsplugin Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>