Re: [gentoo-user] Do not emerge firefox 4.0 if you do not want gconf

[Vincent Launchbury]

On 2011/03/24 05:37PM, Sebastian Günther wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just to warn everyone of you readers, who use ~ARCH:
> firefox 4.0 arrived with a dep to gconf.
>
> A big show stopper for the all who do not want to have any gnome
> dependencies, but want to have the new Firefox.

Judging by the comment in the ebuild, gconf is only used to set the
default browser. If that won't affect you, you could just add it to
package.provided as a quick fix until a use flag is added for it.
That's what I did, and firefox seems to run fine without it.

Regards,
Vincent.

> You have been warned
> Sebastian