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Bug 303089 - There is mozilla-firefox-bin but plugins (gecko-mediaplayer) still need to compile xulrunner
Summary: There is mozilla-firefox-bin but plugins (gecko-mediaplayer) still need to co...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
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Reported: 2010-02-01 11:24 UTC by Marek Kozlowski
Modified: 2010-02-01 12:03 UTC (History)
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Description Marek Kozlowski 2010-02-01 11:24:42 UTC 
There are bin packages for some applications like an OOo, Firefox, Thunderbird and some other. For Firefox there is mozilla-firefox-bin. The only media player plugin that is available (gecko-mediaplayer) has no bin package and depends on xulrunner. Can I request any binary package for it? Installing mozilla-firefox-bin and then compiling xulrunner makes very little sense...

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-02-01 12:03:30 UTC 
You can always ask but it won't happen. Those packages you mention download upstream prebuilt binaries and install them, where as gecko-mediaplayer doesn't provide ones, and it would be too much pain to keep them in sync (the plug-in needs code changes with every xulrunner/firefox release)