ports/131541: [PATCH] multimedia/vlc: Add xulrunner to USE_GECKO within WITH_VLC_MOZILLA_PLUGIN

Naram Qashat cyberbotx at cyberbotx.com
Tue Feb 10 02:30:04 UTC 2009


The following reply was made to PR ports/131541; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Naram Qashat <cyberbotx at cyberbotx.com>
To: "Joseph S. Atkinson" <jsatkinson at embarqmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/131541: [PATCH] multimedia/vlc: Add xulrunner to USE_GECKO
 within WITH_VLC_MOZILLA_PLUGIN
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:20:31 -0500

 Joseph S. Atkinson wrote:
 > I don't want xulrunner to be the default gecko and the order implies 
 > preference. If you want it to use xulrunner instead of firefox, you need 
 > to specify `WITH_GECKO=xulrunner` somehow (such as in /etc/make.conf or 
 > at build time).
 > 
 > NOTE: I cannot test that it will actually build and work with xulrunner 
 > at this moment, but it's ultimately the end user's mistake to make if 
 > they choose. It might work one day, but not on the next bump to either 
 > ports.
 > 
 > If the submitter has no objections, please submit my version instead.
 
 No objection to that.  And I know it builds with xulrunner as I've done it before.
 
 Naram Qashat
 
 > Also, while I am here, slay the dragon known as mozilla since it's old 
 > and vulnerable and I have no idea why anyone or anything would still 
 > want to use it (looking at you OpenOffice!). And the same applies to NVU 
 > (the use of which didn't make a lot of sense here anyway here). These 
 > save someone the trouble should they (finally) get purged form ports.
 > 
 > aka: jsa at wickedmachine.net
 > 



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