There are NO packages currently in the standard portage tree that have USE flag "firefox". Based on http://gpo.zugaina.org/Search?search=&use=firefox Packages listed: app-misc/tracker - USE flag is actually firefox-bookmarks www-plugins/hackplugins-meta - has +firefox on all overlay ebuilds www-misc/dactyl - has +firefox on all overlay ebuilds x11-themes/cloak - has firefox on all overlay ebuilds So the only package affected would be x11-themes/cloak, which only has 2 ebuilds, both located on Overlay: 4nykey (layman) Bug 96473 from 2005/2006 does not apply anymore, based on ebuild changes/updates. Thanks!
On my system: $ euse -i -g firefox global use flags (searching: firefox) ************************************************************ no matching entries found $ euse -i -l firefox local use flags (searching: firefox) ************************************************************ no matching entries found Also there is no "firefox" USE flag in /var/portage/repos/gentoo/profiles/use.desc or /var/portage/repos/gentoo/profiles/use.local.desc
Exactly. But it's listed in /usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults # grep firefox /usr/portage/profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults USE="a52 aac acpi alsa bluetooth branding cairo cdda cdr consolekit cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac gif glamor gpm gtk jpeg lcms ldap libnotify mad mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pango pdf png policykit ppds qt3support qt5 sdl spell startup-notification svg tiff truetype vorbis udev udisks unicode upower usb wxwidgets X xcb x264 xml xv xvid" I'll upload a patch as well.
Created attachment 512644 [details, diff] Patch that removes firefox from targets/desktop/make.defaults
Assigning to the various DEs, because I don't know where else to put it. Running "quse firefox" seems to confirm.
ACK from gnome, tagging next assignee, eh
ACK from KDE, but if there's no consumers I'd just drop it.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=404ee4b34fcaba4a759bb78ceed1253009fa4f38 commit 404ee4b34fcaba4a759bb78ceed1253009fa4f38 Author: Adam Grissom <grissoma@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2018-02-02 12:57:30 +0000 Commit: Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-02-02 12:58:13 +0000 profiles: drop firefox USE flag from desktop make.defaults The firefox USE flag isn't used anywhere. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/642760 profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
