Bug 196363

Summary:	You don't actually need firefox or seamonkey to build galeon with xulrunner
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrew Cowie <andrew>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	2007.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Make back end dependency orthogonal

Description Andrew Cowie 2007-10-19 07:28:12 UTC

Many months back I switched to using xulrunner only (mostly on the advice of the GNOME hackers at GUADEC).

When I tried to do this for Galeon, I found that I had to manually edit a copy of the .ebuild to permit it to build USE="xulrunner -seamonkey -firefox". My diff is attached.

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Comment 1 Andrew Cowie 2007-10-19 07:29:51 UTC

Created attachment 133865 [details, diff]
Make back end dependency orthogonal

Simple change making the seamonkey, firefox, and xulrunner USE flags orthogonal. Don't really expect anyone to apply this as-is, but I thought I'd point out the general idea of what I was up to.

AfC

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-19 07:33:41 UTC

I completely fail to see what are you fixing here, sorry. The patch is broken and pulls in dependencies that will be completely unused when seamonkey/firefox use flags are unused.

Comment 3 Andrew Cowie 2007-10-19 09:10:52 UTC

I ran into the problem that without this patch, emerging USE=-firefox xulrunner still resulted in the firefox backend being used.

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Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-19 09:16:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> I ran into the problem that without this patch, emerging USE=-firefox xulrunner
> still resulted in the firefox backend being used.

There's no firefox use flag in the ebuild, so... If you claim there's some bug, tell us how to reproduce it. The patch is wrong as said above, and  myconf="--with-mozilla=xulrunner" w/ USE=xulrunnner is completely unchanged by your patch either.