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On 1/3/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 13:58, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: |
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> > > is it possible to build seamonkey without the whole updating |
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> > > (and check-for-update) stuff ? |
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> > > thx |
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> > emerge sync && emerge -u seamonkey |
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> > That's the only way I can think of .... |
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> Seamonkey (and Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox) seem to have written so that |
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> the update ability is hard coded into them and is not an option. |
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> At least that's what the ebuild and USE flags tell me, and I'm way to |
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> lazy to investigate the Mozilla build system to get a definite answer. |
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> Besides, it's probably a horrific build system. And also besides, the |
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> update code portion probably isn't that big. |
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> What Enrico needs to do is download SeaMonkey and build it like normal, |
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> then deactivate the auto-update stuff in Preferences |
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> alan |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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I can't speak for Seamonkey, but for Firefox, at least the 3.0a version, |
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there is an option to disable automatic checking for updates. Go into |
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preferences, then advanced, then update. |
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- Mark Shields |
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