Bug 190605 – mozilla-firefox + USE="restrict-javascript" tries to install mozilla-firefox-bin as a noscript dependency

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Thomas Sachau 2007-08-29 05:19:47 UTC]

I did a new install for mozilla-firefox with use flag "restrict-javascript" and the noscript-plugin got in as an dependency. But this plugin also inserted mozilla-firefox-bin (and some 32-bit-emul-libs) as dependencies into the queue.

My solution for now, as it only happens with a new install:
1. USE="-restrict-javascript" emerge mozilla-firefox
2. emerge -1 noscript

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-08-29 05:58:17 UTC]

Yeah, and as soon as we "fix" it, people installing mozilla-firefox-bin will complain about exactly the opposite issue.

CANTFIX.

[Comment 2 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-08-29 15:01:54 UTC]

Actually he has a point. Gentoo is a source distribution and as that www-client/mozilla-firefox should be preferred to  www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin

[Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-08-29 15:02:54 UTC]

Mozilla team, please be so nice and switch the || dependency accordingly.

[Comment 4 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-08-29 15:03:31 UTC]

um, assign...

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-08-29 15:26:58 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Actually he has a point. Gentoo is a source distribution and as that
> www-client/mozilla-firefox should be preferred to 
> www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin

> Mozilla team, please be so nice and switch the || dependency accordingly.

Yeah, sure forcing www-client/mozilla-firefox on -bin users makes a lot more sense - since they'll compile it completely needlessly, which is *exactly* what they wanted to avoid by installing -bin. Sigh.

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-09-05 11:02:56 UTC]

*** Bug 191365 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2007-09-05 11:15:37 UTC]

I guess the best solution in this case is to drop the DEPEND line...

Thoughts?

[Comment 8 Thomas Sachau 2007-09-05 16:07:59 UTC]

Perhaps something like this?

-drop DEPEND and RDEPEND in noscript
-with USE="restrict-javascript" noscript as POSTDEPEND in mozilla-firefox and mozilla-firefox-bin
-in noscript check for /usr/bin/firefox|/usr/bin/firefox-bin, else die "No installed firefox found"

[Comment 9 [e-mail] 2007-10-05 15:11:46 UTC]

This is a portage flaw, is it not? The resolver should recognize that the RDEPEND="|| (
        >=www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-1.5.0.7
        >=www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.7
)"

is met by *at least one* of the packages already on the build list, in this case non-bin mozilla-firefox. Adding another package to fulfill an already-met dependency is wrong.

[Comment 10 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-10-05 17:30:04 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> This is a portage flaw, is it not? 

Yeah, you don't understand what's this bug about, so... can we drop the dependency and close this to prevent more noise please?

[Comment 11 David Sparks 2007-10-17 05:52:34 UTC]

I find this bug very strange.  I don't want to have both mozilla-firefox and mozilla-firefox-bin installed on my computer.  Surely this bug can be fixed in a better way than adding mozilla-firefox-bin to package.mask?

[Comment 12 Martin Baute 2008-10-31 12:06:53 UTC]

Preferring one over the other is no solution.

But emerging *both* isn't a solution, either.

I'm not an ebuild wizard so I don't have a solution, but this needs one. I got quite confused over the sudden appearance of mozilla-firefox-bin on my machine. (equery eventually told me it was noscript who dragged it in.)

Options?

[Comment 13 Mad Scientist 2008-11-02 21:40:32 UTC]

How about forking the no-script ebuild into noscript and noscript-bin? Sure the underlying portage bug should be fixed but wouldn't this provide a good solution to this problem?

[Comment 14 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) 2009-05-01 08:39:17 UTC]

This is no longer an issue with portage-2.2* which has better blocker resolution logic.