Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:11:25 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A mozilla lite port. Message-ID: <3C6A821D.6C235A89@FreeBSD.org> References: <B88FD675.60AE%ade@FreeBSD.org>
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Ade Lovett wrote: > > On 02/13/02 08:21, "Maxim Sobolev" <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > Ade Lovett wrote: > >> > >> On 02/13/02 03:48, "Maxim Sobolev" <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >>> You don't really need this, because mozilla, mozilla-embedded and > >>> mozilla-headers share *the same* WRKSRC, so that whatever your > >>> installation order is the mozilla being built only once. This was one > >>> of the primary design goals of the mozilla-embedded/mozilla-headers. > >> > >> Yes. However, consider the all-too-familiar scenario: > >> > >> cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome; make install clean > >> cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome-fifth-toe; make install clean > >> > >> And watch www/mozilla being built twice. > > > > This is the price one pays for not thinking the process out. I do not > > see why we should do something about it. > > That's a ridiculous assumption. If I have x11/gnome installed, and then > proceed on to x11/gnome-fifth-toe, having cleaned out apx 2GB (a signifcant > amount of data, even with today's drives) of expanded tarfiles and built > sources from x11/gnome, before starting on gnome-fifth-toe, then the very > first thing gnome-fifth-toe does is to build mozilla, having just, as the > second-to-last item of x11/gnome, built mozilla previously, to get > mozilla-embedded, for nautilus. This is silly. Well, then just make nautilus using mozilla instead of mozilla-embedded. There is even knob for that in nautilus/Makefile. I do not see any other reasonable way to cope with the problem, do you? Perhaps we have to just nuke Mozilla from gnome-fifth-toe, considering that galeon could be used for browsing instead. -Maxim > > Consider the following > > scenario: > > > > cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome; make install clean > > rm -rf / > > [bang] > > :) > > Whilst the smiley is noted, this is hardly a comparable situation, since I'm > staying well and truly within the realms of the ports tree :) > > -aDe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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