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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