Bug 235532

Summary:	netscape-flash-10_beta20080811 depends on acroread
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rahul Jain <rahul>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	nbensa
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rahul Jain 2008-08-23 13:22:33 UTC

app-text/acroread is listed as a dependency for  netscape-flash-10_beta20080811. While it is possible to build it after removing acroread from the ebuild.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add app-text/acroread back to the ebuild
2. emerge -av netscape-flash
3.

Actual Results:  
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-text/acroread-8.1.2-r3  USE="cups -ldap -minimal -nsplugin" LINGUAS="en -da -de -es -fi -fr -it -ja -ko -nb -nl -pt -sv -zh_CN -zh_TW" 45,919 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] net-www/netscape-flash-10_beta20080811  0 kB 


Expected Results:  
[ebuild   R   ] net-www/netscape-flash-10_beta20080811  0 kB 

I do not want acroead.

Comment 1 Norberto Bensa 2008-08-23 13:30:53 UTC

worst. acroread depends on xulrunner-bin-1.8 (firefox 2.x IIAC) :(

Comment 2 Rahul Jain 2008-08-23 14:03:55 UTC

It is possible to build netscape-flash-10* without acroread but it is not possible to use it without that. What is worse, now I cannot even downgrade to 9, it just fails to unpack.

Comment 3 Piotr 2008-08-23 14:38:59 UTC

Does any one know why flash now depends on acroread? I also dont want to have acroread but I some times need to use flash.

Comment 4 Norberto Bensa 2008-08-23 15:10:34 UTC

"We are Micro^H^H^H^H^HAdobe, and WE want YOU to use our software, and ONLY OUR software"

Perhaps flash now uses some function from acroread; which -obviously- sucks.

Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-08-23 15:56:15 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 234542 ***