[HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:52:43 -0500, <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:

> Martin Wilke <miwi at 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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