Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

[Patrick Rutkowski]

On Friday 22 July 2005 23:31, Ryan Sims wrote:
> I just upgraded to mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.0.6-r1 and
> mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.6-r1, and they seem to be conflicting with
> each other, i.e. when I install firefox, running thunderbird gives me
> a "/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: can't find the browser :-(" error,
> so I remerge thunderbird and it runs, but I find that then firefox
> gives me the same error. I've done this a couple of times, and
> resynced.
>
> Well, I looked at the ebuilds, because I noticed that the thunderbird
> merge was installing a lot of stuff in "/opt/firefox" which seemed
> wrong, and sure enough I found this in the thunderbird-bin-1.0.6-r1:
>
> (line 36) src_install () {
>      declare MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/opt/firefox
>
> The thunderbird-bin-1.0.5-r1 ebuild seems to use /opt/thunderbird as its
> home...
>
> Changelog doesn't seem to mention anything....was thinking about
> opening a bug report?
>
> -=-
> Ryan W Sims

I recently had various problems with firefox-bin too; then I let the source 
compile rip while I was away at work.

I find that things are just better if you stay away from bins.

Sorry I can't offer any real advice,
Patrick Rutkowski
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