Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:52:43 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: miwi@freebsd.org, gecko@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future Message-ID: <4a905a9b.L0q7wtlRUsdLHCnM%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20090822182208.GM82743@bsdcrew.de> References: <20090822182208.GM82743@bsdcrew.de>
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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).
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