Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble decrypting message from firefox ebuild

[Paul Hartman]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote:
> On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>>>>>      All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't
>>>>>      compile, if after installing firefox 3.0 you get some
>>>>>      blockers, please add 'xulrunner' to your USE-flags.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anybody have idea what the above sentence is trying to say?
>>>>
>>>> It's saying that if you use firefox -3*, then you should
>>>> remove "firefox" from your USE and add "xulrunner" instead.
>>>> This way, nothing in the tree will try to pull in firefox-2*
>>>> (which obviously conflicts with firefox-3*).
>>>
>>> Wow.  I'm not doubting that what you say is true, but how
>>> anybody was supposed to get that from the emerge message is
>>> beyond me.
>>>
>>>> There have been 4 earlier threads on this very topic in the
>>>> last fortnight.  For more details, please check the recent
>>>> archives (rehashing the same thing over and over is getting
>>>> really tedious)
>>>
>>> Sort of makes you wonder if the message is a bit too cryptic,
>>> eh?
>>
>> If I read that message out loud, it sounds suspiciously like a
>> babelfish translation from Japanese to English. Whatever it
>> is, the author of the message is certainly not a native
>> English speaker.
>>
>> But the intent is easy to see if you already know how it
>> works.
>
> Yes, once somebody has told you the answer, it's possible to
> make some sense of the message. But, I stand by my assertion
> that give just the message very many people are going to figure
> out that it means you need to replace the "firefox" use flag
> with the "xulrunner" use flag so that apps will build against
> firefox-3 instead of trying to build against firefox-2.

Someone should file a bug to have the message changed to something clearer.