Bug 67753

Summary:	Gnome wants mozilla not mozilla-bin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	akbar kok <akbarhome>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description akbar kok 2004-10-16 01:52:25 UTC

Because compiling mozilla took 4 hours on 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 celeron, I unmerge mozilla, than emerge mozilla-bin.....
When I update gnome by emerge -pv gnome....
I see that it want to install mozilla as N ( new ). I have mozilla-bin already. It is same. I try to use USE variable.... not work.....

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge unmerge mozilla
2. emerge mozilla-bin
3. wait until there is a new package for gnome
4. emerge -pv gnome 


Actual Results:  
portage insist to install mozilla rather seeing I have mozilla-bin already

Expected Results:  
portage should respect my right not to compile mozilla and use mozilla-bin. And
when I want to emerge package that use mozilla as dependencies, it should not
insist to install mozilla.

Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-16 02:33:13 UTC

Does mozilla-bin come with header files ? I'm not sure we want to support it anyway, after all *-bin packs are a non-gentoo-ish hack imo.

Comment 2 akbar kok 2004-10-18 01:53:22 UTC

I don't honestly know. But mozilla-bin is 12 mb and mozilla is 29 mb.

Comment 3 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-18 02:33:55 UTC

well, mozilla and mozilla-bin are two different things. we need the mozilla with headers/pkgconfig and all for gnome.