Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14

[Daniel Pielmeier]

Jason Messerschmitt schrieb:
> Could you elaborate. What is xulrunner exactly?
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, <felix@×××××××.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote:
>>> Help me stop this from happening please.
>> In my recent troubles with emerge -ev world, I had a similar problem,
>> which was cured by converting the "firefox" use flag into "xulrunner".
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Firefox 3 has been ported to use xulrunner [1,2,3] instead of gecko as 
rendering engine. The main advantage of xulrunner for source based 
distributions like gentoo is that building firefox (and other apps which 
are ported to xulrunner) is way faster than before, because they can use 
xulrunner as a shared runtime environment. This is more beneficial if 
you use many apps based on xulrunner. Before you needed the runtime 
environment for every single app. Now the source of firefox, thunderbird 
and sunbird is about three times the size of seamonkey which contains 
the same functionalities of the three apps. With the new xulrunner this 
will change and you save a lot of bandwith too.

As for myself I have replaced the firefox use-flags with xulrunner, 
although it will take some time to gain benefit from this.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/GRE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XULRunner
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