Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

[James Ausmus]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> > yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE.
>> > firefox-bin is no use, the program needs the header files for either
>> > firefox or xulrunner. The current recommendation is to use xulrunner
>> > instead of firefox in this situation, and in your USE flags.
>
>> I am currently having no problems.  I use gnucash extensively and use
>> firefox (not -bin) as well.  Is the recommendation to switch and add
>> xulrunner to USE?  If the purpose is to avoid the need for firefox,
>> that is not relevant to me.  If, however, xulrunner in some way
>> improves gnucash, I might well want to try it.
>
> It is to avoid the need for Firefox 2 installed from source, which is a
> problem if you use Firefox 3 or firefox-bin. the xulrunner flag make
> GnuCash, and other apps, build against xunrunner instead of the firefox 2
> headers.

Also, if you're going to use FF3, with xulrunner, FF3 will compile
against xulrunner, thus reducing the FF3 build to time to a few
minutes, as the LONG build already happened with xulrunner...

-James



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