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On Sunday 18 January 2009 18:02:10 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> I just build firefox and noticed the following warning in the |
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> ebuild output, and I'm a bit baffled by the grammar: |
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> All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't |
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> compile, if after installing firefox 3.0 you get some |
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> blockers, please add 'xulrunner' to your USE-flags. |
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> Does anybody have idea what the above sentence is trying to say? |
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It's saying that if you use firefox -3*, then you should remove "firefox" from |
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your USE and add "xulrunner" instead. This way, nothing in the tree will try |
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to pull in firefox-2* (which obviously conflicts with firefox-3*). |
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There have been 4 earlier threads on this very topic in the last fortnight. |
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For more details, please check the recent archives (rehashing the same thing |
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over and over is getting really tedious) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |