svn commit: r505827 - in head: Mk www/firefox

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 4 12:01:17 UTC 2019


On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 01:55:17PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 11:48:01AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 11:39:49AM +0000, Jan Beich wrote:
> > > New Revision: 505827
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/505827
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >   gecko: drop GTK2 and RUST options after r505740 and r505753
> > 
> > I'm afraid this was too fast, and would make `www/palemoon' resurrection
> > harder (I don't plan to do anything about Seamonkey though), and I may
> > need it be reverted.
> 
> I don't think reverting is a solution here, the web browser ports are
> already very complicated to maintain.

That's why I've just raised a concern, not firmly requested anything. :-)

> If palemoon has to be resurected one day, it should bundle the part
> from bsd.gecko.mk that have been removed for the sake of easing the
> maintenance of firefox and friends.

I've been told to not rely on to-be-removed USE_GECKO and pointed to
the `www/cliqz' as example, so I guess we're all fine now.  Thanks,

./danfe


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