Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 13:42:18 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Possible obsolete entries in /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <20110904134218.16da794a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP1655EC201657727CFE5119C931A0@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP1655EC201657727CFE5119C931A0@phx.gbl>
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On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:27:28 -0400, Carmel wrote: > A while ago, at least a year or more I would guess, I saw something > about placing a couple of entries in the "/etc/make.conf" file to > correct a problem with "Firefox". I am currently using Firefox-6.0.1 on > FreeBSD-8.2. These are the entries I am wondering about: > > WITH_MOZILLA=firefox > WITH_GECKO=libxul > > Are they still relevant, or can I just remove them. Honestly, I do not > remember exactly what they do anymore, anyway. I can't name the particular port, but I think I remember that some port required Mozilla (!= Firefox!) as a dependency for using its HTML engine for its help system. Those options prevented the installation of Mozilla and made the port use Firefox instead. This situation appeared when the port that was not seen to have anything to do with web browsing caused the installation of Mozilla, even if Firefox was already installed (and also if it was not). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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