Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:22:29
Message-Id: 58965d8a0811180822g70960220t45cd20a74e48666b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox? by Michael Moore
1 On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Michael Moore <mikem.unet@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I am trying to remove firefox from my system and stick with only opera.
5 > However, i have run into a dilemma
6 >
7 > % equery d mozilla-firefox
8 > [ Searching for packages depending on www-client/mozilla-firefox... ]
9 > app-text/acroread-8.1.3 (x86 & !minimal? www-client/mozilla-firefox)
10 > net-news/liferea-1.4.15 (!xulrunner & firefox? =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2*)
11 > net-www/gecko-mediaplayer-0.6.3 (=www-client/mozilla-firefox-2*)
12 >
13 > Clearly shows that gecko-mediaplayer depends on firefox. However, that is
14 > the only media-plugin which has really worked for me with opera. So,
15 > what I want to do is keep gecko-mediaplayer but remove firefox.
16 >
17 > Any workaround possible?
18
19 Many (but not all) of this type of package can be built against
20 xulrunner instead of firefox/seamonkey. Some do it automatically and
21 some need the USE flags to be set up this way. Get rid of any firefox
22 or seamonkey use flags and add +xulrunner use flag and see what a
23 emerge with --newuse wants to do.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox? Michael Moore <mikem.unet@×××××.com>