Bug 113094 – firefox useflag doesn't cover firefox-bin

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 160857
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Peter Sorowka 2005-11-20 09:21:00 UTC]

I just stumbled over that again. Some programs got this firefox useflag (i.e.
gnome-python-extras) On my amd64 machine there is a firefox-bin installed which
doesnt satisfy the >mozilla-firefox-1.0 dependency. I'm sure this happens with
other programs as well..
I dont know howto resolve this cleanly, introducing a 'firefox-bin' useflag
seems to be very ugly.. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-11-20 09:23:16 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I dont know howto resolve this cleanly, introducing a 'firefox-bin' useflag
> seems to be very ugly.. 

That would be first of all useless and broken; those apps need firefox sources
to compile, mozilla-firefox-bin does not provide them.

[Comment 2 Peter Sorowka 2005-11-20 09:30:13 UTC]

i dont think so. in case of gnome-python-extras i dirty hacked my ebuild to
ignore the dependency - everything worked

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-11-20 09:38:47 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> i dont think so. in case of gnome-python-extras i dirty hacked my ebuild to
> ignore the dependency - everything worked

If there is an ebuild with an unneeded dependency, file a separate bug about
that ebuild; the purpose of firefox use flag is not to install binary firefox
version, but to compile optional support for mozilla features against firefox
(instead of mozilla, so that people are not forced to compile mozilla if they
already have firefox). That needs FF headers installed. mozilla-firefox-bin does
*not* provide them, so that would not work. 

Closing. 

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-02-25 21:05:42 UTC]

Let's dupe this.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-02-25 21:05:52 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 160857 ***