when emerging mozilla-firefox, I can't make it compile the composer as well, no matter what USE flags I set. (and the default is to disable it). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mozilla-firefox 2. see that no composer is compiled into it 3. Actual Results: the emerge process prints this summary of the configuration, in the beginning: ========================================================== Building mozilla-firefox-1.0.2 with the following configuration --disable-ldap mozilla.org default --disable-mailnews mozilla.org default --enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth mozilla.org default --enable-crypto mozilla.org default --disable-composer mozilla.org default --enable-single-profile mozilla.org default --disable-profilesharing mozilla.org default --enable-optimize=-O2 mozilla fallback --enable-old-abi-compat-wrappers building with >=gcc-3 --disable-installer gentoo --disable-pedantic gentoo --enable-crypto gentoo --with-system-jpeg gentoo --with-system-png gentoo --with-system-zlib gentoo --without-system-nspr gentoo --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 gentoo --enable-ipv6 +ipv6 --enable-xinerama +xinerama --enable-xprint +xprint --enable-freetype2 +truetype --enable-freetypetest +truetype --disable-debug -debug --disable-tests -debug --enable-reorder -debug --enable-strip -debug --enable-strip-libs -debug --enable-elf-dynstr-gc x86 optimized build --enable-xft -moznoxft --enable-oji mozilla.org default --enable-mathml mozilla.org default --enable-jsd +mozdevelop --enable-xpctools +mozdevelop --enable-extensions=venkman +mozdevelop --enable-gnomevfs +gnome --enable-extensions=gnomevfs +gnome --enable-svg +mozsvg --enable-svg-renderer-cairo +mozsvg --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox mozilla.org default ========================================================== Expected Results: somehow (preferably through a USE flag) one shold be able to make firefox compile the composer as well...
Mozilla/Firefox shares codebase, looks like also the configure/build framework, but it doesn't come with any editor/composer. You will never have a composer with firefox, if yxou want that, then you have to emrerge the blown mozilla itself. Also no USE flag in ebuild to enable this.
hm, but I heard that they will discontinue the mozilla suite in general. so, the mozilla composer will die then totally?
The Mozilla Suite will live on. The new name is SeaMonkey for version 2. Also, you might want to check out Nvu. It's based on XUL/Gecko (same stuff as Mozilla) and is a full app dedicated to site editing and management. It's like composer, but greatly improved. It's in portage. Website: http://nvu.com/
FF does not have any composer.
