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Date:      Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:33:16 -0500
From:      Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com>
To:        t-u-t <marshc187@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gecko & firefox marked forbidden
Message-ID:  <4997389C.3030904@cyberbotx.com>
In-Reply-To: <499735E6.7050909@gmail.com>
References:  <499735E6.7050909@gmail.com>

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t-u-t wrote:
> just a note,
> firefox2 has been marked forbidden, and it stopped me twice while 
> building gnome2-lite today when pulled for gecko depends by www/epiphany 
> and x11/yelp.
> 
> on my own system i fixed the Makefiles of these two to use xulrunner, 
> (which was there anyway - just removed firefox), but i don't know what 
> other effects there are on other ports etc.
> 
> n.b. i don't need ff2, just noting

I'll point out that the same issue occured for me with multimedia/vlc.  It was 
updated to have xulrunner after firefox in USE_GECKO, but even defining 
WITH_GECKO=xulrunner it still tried to install firefox2.  I don't know what the 
bug is, but there is one.

Naram Qashat



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