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Bug 716070 - www-client/firefox-bin depends on gtk2
Summary: www-client/firefox-bin depends on gtk2
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
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Reported: 2020-04-03 20:09 UTC by Arnaud Vallette d'Osia
Modified: 2020-04-03 21:08 UTC (History)
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Description Arnaud Vallette d'Osia 2020-04-03 20:09:43 UTC
Why? I feel like this is a bug. Firefox is supposedly ported to gtk3 since 2016:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1186003
Can we drop this dependency?
(Firefox-bin is the single last ebuild I use that depends on gtk2)

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Arnaud Vallette d'Osia 2020-04-03 20:18:46 UTC
I just had a look to thunderbird-bin ebuild, and same applies.
Comment 2 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev 2020-04-03 20:47:41 UTC
It's needed by NPAPI support (which still uses gtk2 underneath) that will "likely" get removed late this year or early 2021.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1377445

Although when it comes to firefox-bin, simply removing the libraries should allow to drop the dependency (along with NPAPI/flash support), albeit "personally" not convinced it's worth introducing short-lived USE flags, warnings, or dropping features early by default before Mozilla does it themselves.
Comment 3 Arnaud Vallette d'Osia 2020-04-03 21:08:10 UTC
Sounds reasonable so, ok, thanks. Closing