I am...unimpressed with this newest upgrade of X

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 18 May 2010, J. Altman wrote:
>
> pkg_libchk -rRv returns Don King's Hair:
>
> firefox-3.5.9,1: located:
> /usr/local/lib/firefox3/components/libbrowsercomps.so misses
> *
> <snip thirty or so lines of output; all centered on /usr/local/lib/firefox3)
> *

I think these are false positives from the -v option.  My system shows 
the same, anyway.  Normally just pkg_libchk without options will find 
the problems.

> Can I assume that, for firefox3, make deinstall followed by make
> reinstall is indicated?

Normally, yes, but the -v may be overly aggressive for this.

> OTOH, xfce (I think) pulled in firefox3 as some sort of dependency. 
> I'm ambivalent about xfce at this point; so perhaps a simple make 
> deinstall for firefox will work? Or is it more likely to be a 
> deinstall of xfce, followed by a forced rebuild of everything else?

firefox isn't a dependency for xfce.  Rebuilding either wouldn't hurt, 
but may not help either.

> OTOH: pkg_libchk -vRr \*firefox\* looks identical to the output above;
> while pkg_libchk -vRr \*seamonkey\* returns no errors. So I'm not sure
> if rebuilding or deinstalling Firefox3 or xfce is indicated for the
> Seamonkey issue. Thoughts?

Switch from seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird?  The user interfaces 
should be very similar, and the wider-circulating applications receive 
more user testing.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA