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From: AllenJB <gentoo-lists@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:36:53
Message-Id: 4969D9CE.3020604@allenjb.me.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage by Fernando Antunes
1 Fernando Antunes wrote:
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4 > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:03 AM, econti <contiemilio@×××××.it
5 > <mailto:contiemilio@×××××.it>> wrote:
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7 > AllenJB ha scritto:
8 >
9 > cut
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11 > On to your next issue where 2 versions of firefox are being
12 > pulled in. First of all you need to remove the package.mask
13 > entry you added, since it masked out all versions of firefox
14 > above 2.0.0 - that includes both firefox 2 and firefox 3 - not
15 > particularly useful.
16 >
17 > The correct resolution here is not obvious. You need to edit
18 > your /etc/make.conf and set "-firefox xulrunner". This is
19 > because a core piece of the mozilla framework, on which firefox
20 > is built, called xulrunner has been split out from the firefox
21 > package. This will help to avoid issues in the future and allow
22 > for faster upgrades. This change should get all applications
23 > using firefox 3 instead of firefox 2.
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25 >
26 > Please, help me to understand more about this.
27 > firefox use flag is for version 2 and xulrunner is for version 3 ?
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29 Correct
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31 AllenJB
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36 > That worked fine!
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39 > AllenJB
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41 > Thank you, AllenJB
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43 > emilio
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