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Date:      Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:51:18 -0400
From:      matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com>
To:        Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org, perryh@pluto.rain.com, gecko@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future
Message-ID:  <28283d910908221451k67da92d8w10606505e9656f5d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.uy22apoy9aq2h7@localhost>
References:  <20090822182208.GM82743@bsdcrew.de> <4a905a9b.L0q7wtlRUsdLHCnM%perryh@pluto.rain.com>  <op.uy22apoy9aq2h7@localhost>

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On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:52:43 -0500, <perryh@pluto.rain.com> wrote:
>
>  Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Background:
>>>  We have a lot of old stuff on the portstree and it's time
>>>  to cleanup old stuff.
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>>     * www/nvu last official release was in 2005, no longer
>>>       supported, and also some vulnerabilities. We have
>>>       www/kompozer which also need an update to get this
>>>       unbroken.
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> Problems which we have to solve:
>>>  Some Gnome ports need www/firefox to build and work,
>>>  but unfortunately firefox2 isn't longer supported by
>>>  the Mozilla Foundation.
>>>
>>
>> So, if I am understanding this correctly, it's proposed to
>> replace nvu with an updated kompozer, which to judge from
>> the name is part of KDE.  Thus Gnome acquires a dependency
>> on KDE by way of firefox/gecko?  This does not seem like a
>> Good Thing (TM).
>>
>
> Why don't you check what kompozer is first? ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>
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kompozer is NVU
KompoZer is an unoffical bugfix/update aka a fork



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