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> In-Reply-To: <49F4AB60.4060203@googlemail.com> References: <49F424CA.3040100@rawbw.com> <747dc8f30904261039x1c09b723ld351a3bfcbfdaa2e@mail.gmail.com> <49F4AB60.4060203@googlemail.com>
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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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