Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 8:34:59 -0700 From: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> To: <ports@freebsd.org> Cc: roberthuff@rcn.org Subject: Mozilla -is this port ever going to be fixed? Message-ID: <20070315153500.OFT2045.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Vizion > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:31 AM > To: ports@freebsd.org > Cc: roberthuff@rcn.org > Subject: (no subject) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Huff > > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:19 AM > > To: ports@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Mozilla -is this port ever going to be fixed? > > > > Vizion writes: > > > > > > > > _However_: at least one major port - OpenOffice > - depends on > > > > mozilla headers, at least in the usual fully-built-out > > > > configuration. Specificially, on mozilla-1.7.13* > > headers. And it's > > > > been stuck in this state for at least a year. (If > this is wrong, > > > > and someone can point to documentation, please do - I > > would _love_ to > > > > dispose of mozilla.) > > > > > > Well perhaps the port maintainers who need the headers could be > > > asked to incorporate those headers in their distribution so we > > > can get rid of Mozilla. > > > > As I understand it, this is not a "port maintainer" issue - > > it's an issue with the original code base(s). > > Go complain to the folks at OpenOffice. (Et al.) (Hint: you > > won't be the first.) > > > > > > Robert Huff > > _______________________________________________ I do not know about that.. If there is a refusal to keep the port in the tree then the folks at OpenOffice will HAVE to do something about it. With utmost respect I would suggest that this decision needs to be made at the highest level so that the crap is removed. There is too much **** in the ports that needs tidying up and this is one of the most blatant abuses. It sounds like a game of chicken that is being won by the "folks at OpenOffice" to the detriment of everyone else. In my view the buck stops at whoever decides what is kept in the ports. david
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