Bug 162223

Summary:	meta e-build for mozilla-firefox
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nemanja Jakovljevic <jakovljevic>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nemanja Jakovljevic 2007-01-15 16:47:10 UTC

It would be nice if meta-ebuild is provided which will cover mozilla-firefox and mozilla-firefox-bin. Then other applications can depend on it insetad on mozilla-firefox. I am using mozilla-firefox-bin and I don't like the situation where some ebuild request to compile mozilla-firefox.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-15 18:21:15 UTC

> Then other applications can depend on it insetad on mozilla-firefox.

No, they can't. You cannot compile anything against mozilla-firefox-bin.

Comment 2 Nemanja Jakovljevic 2007-01-15 19:17:29 UTC

Well, for example if you emerge vlc with USE="nsplugin" it wants either mozilla-firefox or seamonkey installed.
I don't think they (applications that provide nsplugin) anything else then binary version to build (they successfully build if I just set mozilla-firefox as provided package)

Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-15 19:18:54 UTC

Not going to happen, period. You can't compile stuff against firefox-bin.