Bug 412467

Summary:	app-text/acroread-9.5.1 should alternatively depend on www-client/firefox-bin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stephan Litterst <stephan.litterst>
Component:	[OLD] Printing	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stephan Litterst 2012-04-18 06:19:08 UTC

acroread-9.5.1 depends on firefox but not in firefox-bin.
Upgrading acroread while firefox-bin is installed results in an emerging of firefox

equery depends firefox firefox-bin
 * These packages depend on firefox:
app-text/acroread-9.5.1 (!minimal ? www-client/firefox)

 * These packages depend on firefox-bin:


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.upgrade the system with emerge -uD world
2.firefox will be installed even when firefox-bin is already installed
3.
Actual Results:  
firefox will be emerged

Expected Results:  
no emerging of firefox when firefox-bin is already installed

Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2012-04-18 23:02:02 UTC

It seems like that restriction is outdated, possibly last checked sometime around acroread-8... please test with firefox-bin, I added it to the list of possible dependencies. If you encounter problems, please tell us in a new bug!