Bug 326733

Summary:	nsbrowser plugin path should be unified (vlc,lightspark,adobe-flash, gnash, moonlight)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Patrizio Bassi <patrizio.bassi>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Patrizio Bassi 2010-07-03 12:07:08 UTC

gnash and adobe-flash: /opt/netscape/plugins/

lightspark: /usr/lib/lightspark/plugins/

vlc: /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins

moonlight: /usr/lib64/moon/plugin/

ls -l
totale 124
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     56 14 apr 19.56 javaplugin.so -> /usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/icedtea6-javaplugin.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     39 19 giu 10.33 libflashplayer.so -> /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     39  3 lug 13.52 libgnashplugin.so -> /opt/netscape/plugins/libgnashplugin.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     50  3 lug 14.01 liblightsparkplugin.so -> /usr/lib/lightspark/plugins/liblightsparkplugin.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     39  4 dic  2009 libmoonloader.so -> /usr/lib64/moon/plugin/libmoonloader.so*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   1326 25 giu 19.11 libvlcplugin.la*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 119520 25 giu 19.11 libvlcplugin.so*
root@blight plugins # pwd
/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins


expecially the first /opt/netscape/plugins/ is so outdated as netscape was removed ages ago, plus, gnash, compiled from GPL sources, should not go to /opt.

i also don't like ebuilds like vlc to put la libs there.

in my opinion it would be cleaner each app to have a /usr/lib/<app>/nsplugins
directory and /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins contain symlinks.

Comment 1 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-10 19:46:16 UTC

You will probably need to contact the maintainers of those packages individually and convince them. If this problem is very wide-spread, you might want to start an RFC on gentoo-dev. In any case, this bug is INVALID for now.