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On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:29:20 -0700 |
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"Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@g.o> 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 |
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> what many software projects (including Chromium) target. |
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Could you name them? Opera looks into tons of directories. |
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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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Index: nsplugins.eclass |
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/nsplugins.eclass,v |
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retrieving revision 1.24 |
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diff -u -B -r1.24 nsplugins.eclass |
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--- nsplugins.eclass 1 May 2009 23:03:00 -0000 1.24 |
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+++ nsplugins.eclass 10 Aug 2010 23:21:19 -0000 |
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ |
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DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass" |
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-PLUGINS_DIR="nsbrowser/plugins" |
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+PLUGINS_DIR="mozilla/plugins" |
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# This function move the plugin dir in src_install() to |
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# ${D}/usr/$(get_libdir)/${PLUGIN_DIR}. First argument should be |
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You would then need to re-emerge all users of this eclass. |
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All I want to ask is why? In fact *most browsers* have no trouble |
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finding plugins, and provide options through which you can inform them |
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where the plugins might be. |
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What's bugging Chromium? Why does it insist on using a competing |
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browser vendor's name instead of the much more neutral "nsbrowser", |
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which generally denotes browsers with a Netscape style plugin interface? |
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