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From: econti <contiemilio@×××××.it>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:03:26
Message-Id: 4969C3D7.3000205@alice.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage by AllenJB
1 AllenJB ha scritto:
2
3 cut
4 > On to your next issue where 2 versions of firefox are being pulled in.
5 > First of all you need to remove the package.mask entry you added,
6 > since it masked out all versions of firefox above 2.0.0 - that
7 > includes both firefox 2 and firefox 3 - not particularly useful.
8 >
9 > The correct resolution here is not obvious. You need to edit your
10 > /etc/make.conf and set "-firefox xulrunner". This is because a core
11 > piece of the mozilla framework, on which firefox is built, called
12 > xulrunner has been split out from the firefox package. This will help
13 > to avoid issues in the future and allow for faster upgrades. This
14 > change should get all applications using firefox 3 instead of firefox 2.
15
16 That worked fine!
17 >
18 > AllenJB
19 Thank you, AllenJB
20
21 emilio

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Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage Fernando Antunes <fs.antunes@×××××.com>