SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?

[Kurt Buff]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 15:15, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:51 -0700, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I notice that for both The Gimp and graphviz, and probably for others
>> as well, marking them or their dependencies as able to render SVG
>> invokes installation of FF 2.x.
>>
>> This fails, as the port is marked as forbidden, and then the
>> installation of these graphics programs fails.
>>
>> Not a huge deal, but any way to work around it?
>
> An explaination has recently been discussed on this list. See
> the archives, and I'm sure you'll find it very fast. (Sadly,
> I can't remember the thread name, but it involved "Firefox",
> as far as I remember.)

Thanks - I took a look around and I see a thread from April -
"Firefox3 and dependencies on firefox2,libxul,xulrunner" - was that
what you were referring to?

Regardless, I'll try that when I have a few minutes.

On to more difficult problems.

Kurt