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Bug 739910 - www-client/firefox lacks dbus USE flag
Summary: www-client/firefox lacks dbus USE flag
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2020-09-01 17:31 UTC by stephen.smith3141
Modified: 2020-09-02 04:42 UTC (History)
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Description stephen.smith3141 2020-09-01 17:31:59 UTC
Recently, the dbus USE flag was removed from www-client/firefox since builds with USE="-dbus" started to fail due to upstream changes.

Mozilla have now fixed this bug for Firefox 80 (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1561207).

Since builds without DBus should now be possible, can the dbus USE flag be restored for www-client/firefox?
Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-09-01 21:48:15 UTC
I am really wondering if it's worth it. Firefox will depend on x11-libs/gtk+:3[X] which will pull in app-accessibility/at-spi2-atk which will pull in sys-apps/dbus. So you will have dbus when you have firefox...
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2020-09-01 21:50:31 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cfc31caf453e56f7efa3f859d8c4e54d1a99f1b1

commit cfc31caf453e56f7efa3f859d8c4e54d1a99f1b1
Author:     Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-09-01 21:27:34 +0000
Commit:     Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-09-01 21:50:20 +0000

    www-client/firefox: re-introduce USE=dbus
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/739910
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.4, Repoman-3.0.1
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>

 www-client/firefox/firefox-80.0.1.ebuild | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Comment 3 tt_1 2020-09-02 04:42:14 UTC
this certainly helps a lot with cross compile, dbus-glib is a major annoyance here. thanks for picking it up :) 

any thoughts on backporting to 78.x?