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Date:      Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:40:25 +0200
From:      Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl>
To:        "army.of.root" <army.of.root@googlemail.com>
Cc:        Renato Botelho <rbgarga@gmail.com>, ports@freebsd.org, yuri@rawbw.com
Subject:   Re: Why so many ports still depend on firefox-2.X.X.X ?
Message-ID:  <1240778425.1736.5.camel@headache.rainbow-runner.nl>
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On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 20:43 +0200, army.of.root wrote:
> Renato Botelho wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:
> >> I see that ImageMagick, gimp, gimp-apps, inkscape, gnucash, etc depend on
> >> firefox-2.
> >> Why they aren't switched to firefox-3?
> > 
> > You can change gecko engine with WITH_GECKO, if you want
> > to use libxul, the one firefox3 uses, just use:
> > 
> > WITH_GECKO=libxul
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> could I just add WITH_GECKO=libxul to my make.conf and all the ports would 
> still work?

To a certain level, yes. If a port doesn't support libxul, it will
obviously fallback on the gecko version defined in the port as default
(which is probably firefox2). 

> I just installed gnome2-lite on my notebook and it demands firefox2! - I 
> removed epiphany and yelp from the parent Makefile (normal gnome) and it went away.

Both epiphany and yelp support libxul.

> best regards :)

Hope this will help.

-Koop





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