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From: Fernando Antunes <fs.antunes@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:17:44
Message-Id: 9065b8fe0901110317o745df429ua1f969f4e4c37f8a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage by econti
1 On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:03 AM, econti <contiemilio@×××××.it> wrote:
2
3 > AllenJB ha scritto:
4 >
5 > cut
6 >
7 >> On to your next issue where 2 versions of firefox are being pulled in.
8 >> First of all you need to remove the package.mask entry you added, since it
9 >> masked out all versions of firefox above 2.0.0 - that includes both firefox
10 >> 2 and firefox 3 - not particularly useful.
11 >>
12 >> The correct resolution here is not obvious. You need to edit your
13 >> /etc/make.conf and set "-firefox xulrunner". This is because a core piece of
14 >> the mozilla framework, on which firefox is built, called xulrunner has been
15 >> split out from the firefox package. This will help to avoid issues in the
16 >> future and allow for faster upgrades. This change should get all
17 >> applications using firefox 3 instead of firefox 2.
18 >>
19 >
20 Please, help me to understand more about this.
21 firefox use flag is for version 2 and xulrunner is for version 3 ?
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24 >
25 > That worked fine!
26 >
27 >>
28 >> AllenJB
29 >>
30 > Thank you, AllenJB
31 >
32 > emilio
33 >
34 >
35 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage AllenJB <gentoo-lists@××××××××××.uk>