firefox3 support in bsd.gecko.mk

Dominic Fandrey kamikaze at bsdforen.de
Tue Dec 16 02:12:00 PST 2008


matt donovan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Naram Qashat <cyberbotx at cyberbotx.com>wrote:
> 
>> Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>>
>>> There is no firefox3 support in bsd.gecko.mk. This seems to keep
>>> plugins and add-ons that would work in Firefox 3 as well from being
>>> ported.
>>>
>> As far as I understand, plugins for any Mozilla products are made using
>> xulrunner now.
>>
>> Naram Qashat
>>
>>
>>  Regards
>>
> 
> it's just xulrunner and bsd.gecko.mk has it just that to use xulrunner you
> have to do make USE_GECKO=xulrunner install. but if you read
> /usr/ports/UPDATING it tells you how to use plugins inside of firefox3.

My trouble is with german/bsdforen-firefox-searchplugin, which pulls in
www/firefox as a dependency. Sure I can use it with Firefox3, but I see
no reason to have Firefox2 installed as well.


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