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On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 03:34:06AM +0100, Michael Weyersh?user wrote: |
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> felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > I will have to stop using it someday, and I won't bother with an |
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> > overlay. But last time I tried seamonkey it was unstable unreliable |
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> > junk. What I want to understand is why seamonkey and mozilla can't |
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> > coexist. They have different names, but even if they didn't, there |
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> > are slots for apache and apache2, as many different kernels as you |
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> > could possibly want, and ... mozilla and seamonkey conflict with each |
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> > other. Why? |
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> From my understanding (I might be wrong here though) it is quite an |
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> amount of work to go from "only Mozilla & Firefox" to "Mozilla, |
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> Seamonkey and Firefox". The point is not the installation of these |
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> packages but the dozens of packages that use some part of |
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> Mozilla/FF/Seamonkey during compilation / runtime. Considering the |
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> workload of the devs maintaining Mozilla packages in Gentoo it's not a |
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> "they cannot get along for technical reasons" but a "doing this isn't |
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> worth the effort as Mozilla is leaving sooner rather than later" |
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> decision. The situation with all three packages in the tree is only |
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> relatively short-lived (a couple of months), Mozilla is deprecated for |
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> security reasons, Seamonkey considered a drop-in replacement. |
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That makes more sense, if you mean packages have to choose at build |
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time which of the two to support. |
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> I'm sorry it doesn't work for you like it should (I'm a Firefox user |
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> myself), but I don't think this situation will change... |
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I use firefox too, but I don't like the preferences being so much more |
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limited than mozilla. I could always use about:config or whatever |
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that is, but I might as well edit the raw preferences file. |
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