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On Monday 19 January 2009 06:32:00 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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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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You might well be right. I don't concern myself too much with the details. The |
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important bit is that xulrunner does something important, and the two flags |
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control it. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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