Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Hanno Böck" <hanno@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:05:48
Message-Id: 201008111904.49214.hanno@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins by "Paweł Hajdan
1 Am Dienstag 10 August 2010 schrieb Paweł Hajdan, Jr.:
2 > Gentoo uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/nsbrowser/plugins for browser plugins.
3 > However, Debian uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/mozilla/plugins, and that's what
4 > many software projects (including Chromium) target.
5 >
6 > Why are we using nsbrowser/plugins instead of mozilla/plugins, and how
7 > relalistic would it be to switch to mozilla/plugins?
8
9 The optimal approach would be some kind of standard for things like this. If
10 you are already in contact with chromium developers, you might want to start
11 such an initiative.
12
13 If it would be written in the FHS or something alike, it'd probably be easier
14 to convince all browser vendors and distributions to stick to one general
15 directory.
16
17 --
18 Hanno Böck Blog: http://www.hboeck.de/
19 GPG: 3DBD3B20 Jabber/Mail: hanno@××××××.de

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>