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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:31:52
Message-Id: 42E1D542.9000002@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict by Patrick Rutkowski
1 Patrick Rutkowski wrote:
2 > On Friday 22 July 2005 23:31, Ryan Sims wrote:
3 >
4 >>I just upgraded to mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.0.6-r1 and
5 >>mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.6-r1, and they seem to be conflicting with
6 >>each other, i.e. when I install firefox, running thunderbird gives me
7 >>a "/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: can't find the browser :-(" error,
8 >>so I remerge thunderbird and it runs, but I find that then firefox
9 >>gives me the same error. I've done this a couple of times, and
10 >>resynced.
11 >>
12 >>Well, I looked at the ebuilds, because I noticed that the thunderbird
13 >>merge was installing a lot of stuff in "/opt/firefox" which seemed
14 >>wrong, and sure enough I found this in the thunderbird-bin-1.0.6-r1:
15 >>
16 >>(line 36) src_install () {
17 >> declare MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/opt/firefox
18 >>
19 >>The thunderbird-bin-1.0.5-r1 ebuild seems to use /opt/thunderbird as its
20 >>home...
21 >>
22 >>Changelog doesn't seem to mention anything....was thinking about
23 >>opening a bug report?
24 >>
25
26 I give you permission to file a bug ;-). Something's not right about that.
27
28 Zac
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Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>