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On 08/10/2010 11:29 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: |
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> Gentoo uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/nsbrowser/plugins for browser plugins. |
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> However, Debian uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/mozilla/plugins, and that's what |
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> many software projects (including Chromium) target. |
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And that is bad. |
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> Why are we using nsbrowser/plugins instead of mozilla/plugins, and how |
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> relalistic would it be to switch to mozilla/plugins? |
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nsbrowser name is more or less agnostic regarding the current browsers |
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and probably is due netscape being the originator of this api. |
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Given it's a path changing it isn't that hard even if IMHO it should be |
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declared by env var. |
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lu |
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PS: what about the user defined plugin dir (yes, it does exist)? |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |