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On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> If I read that message out loud, it sounds suspiciously like a |
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> babelfish translation from Japanese to English. Whatever it |
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> is, the author of the message is certainly not a native |
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> English speaker. |
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> But the intent is easy to see if you already know how it |
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> works. |
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Yes, once somebody has told you the answer, it's possible to |
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make some sense of the message. But, I stand by my assertion |
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that give just the message very many people are going to figure |
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out that it means you need to replace the "firefox" use flag |
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with the "xulrunner" use flag so that apps will build against |
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firefox-3 instead of trying to build against firefox-2. |
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> Briefly: |
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> The gecko rendering engine was always part of firefox through |
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> versions 1 and 2. This is plain silly as such a thing should |
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> really be an independent block of code that stands alone and |
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> everything else can use without requiring that all of firefox |
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> be present. |
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> This has now been fixed, the engine is now in a package called |
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> xulrunner which firefox builds against. Other apps also need |
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> xulrunner, but if you keep "USE=firefox" intact those apps |
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> will pull in all of firefox-2 just to get gecko. If you have |
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> firefox-3 installed, you have an instant blocker. With |
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> "USE=xulrunner" they will build against xulrunner and firefox |
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> can be whatever you feel like installing. |
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Now I'm confused. I thought xulrunner was the user-interface |
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engine rather than the rendering engine. |
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Grant |
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