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On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 18 January 2009 18:02:10 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> I just build firefox and noticed the following warning in the |
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>> ebuild output, and I'm a bit baffled by the grammar: |
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>> All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't |
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>> compile, if after installing firefox 3.0 you get some |
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>> blockers, please add 'xulrunner' to your USE-flags. |
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>> Does anybody have idea what the above sentence is trying to say? |
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> It's saying that if you use firefox -3*, then you should |
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> remove "firefox" from your USE and add "xulrunner" instead. |
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> This way, nothing in the tree will try to pull in firefox-2* |
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> (which obviously conflicts with firefox-3*). |
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Wow. I'm not doubting that what you say is true, but how |
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anybody was supposed to get that from the emerge message is |
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beyond me. |
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> There have been 4 earlier threads on this very topic in the |
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> last fortnight. For more details, please check the recent |
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> archives (rehashing the same thing over and over is getting |
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> really tedious) |
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Sort of makes you wonder if the message is a bit too cryptic, |
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eh? |
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Grant |
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