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Bug 100746 - Provide a virtual/gecko
Summary: Provide a virtual/gecko
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2005-07-29 11:59 UTC by Yaron Tausky
Modified: 2006-11-12 07:41 UTC (History)
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Description Yaron Tausky 2005-07-29 11:59:03 UTC
Many applications embed the Gecko engine in order to show HTML, and most of them
depend on Mozilla. However, Firefox is now also able to be used as an SDK, and
this situation requires ebuild maintainers to adapt every single ebuild to
support firefox. This is done in a rather inconsistent manner: sometimes the
firefox USE flag is used, and sometimes the ebuild just depends on either
Mozilla or Firefox.
I suggest that both Mozilla and Firefox would provide virtual/gecko, and all
other ebuilds will depend on it. Also, Gecko should be provided alone, in case
the user doesn't want any of the Mozilla browsers (I, for example, use
Epiphany), and should be the default option for satisfying the virtual dependency.
Comment 1 Ernst Rohlicek 2006-02-28 11:33:59 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)

I vote for this virtual/gecko solution, too. Or is there anything in the way? We should do this.
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-11-12 07:41:53 UTC
Too many virtuals killed a kitten. :P Seriously, mozilla and gecko-sdk are about to be removed from the tree, no point in creating an artificial virtual for FF/Seamonkey when those two things are often not mutually compatible replacement so the virtual couldn't be used anyway (see Bug 137665 for the porting-related issues).

WONTFIX.