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

army.of.root army.of.root at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 26 18:43:48 UTC 2009


Renato Botelho wrote:
> 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
> 

Hi,

could I just add WITH_GECKO=libxul to my make.conf and all the ports would 
still work?

I just installed gnome2-lite on my notebook and it demands firefox2! - I 
removed epiphany and yelp from the parent Makefile (normal gnome) and it went away.

best regards :)


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