Why so many ports still depend on firefox-2.X.X.X ?

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Mon Apr 27 17:13:39 UTC 2009


Am 26.04.2009, 19:39 Uhr, schrieb Renato Botelho <rbgarga at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
>> I see that ImageMagick, gimp, gimp-apps, inkscape, gnucash, etc depend  
>> on
>> firefox-2.
>> Why they aren't switched to firefox-3?
>
> You can change gecko engine with WITH_GECKO, if you want
> to use libxul, the one firefox3 uses, just use:
>
> WITH_GECKO=libxul

BTW, this appears to be undocumented in the "USERS" section of  
ports/Mk/bsd.gecko.mk. Is anybody gonna fix this without a formal PR?  
<hint, hint> :-)

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Matthias Andree


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