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jasonmesserschmitt at gmail

Jun 19, 2008, 11:01 AM

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revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14

Help me stop this from happening please.

jasonmesserschmitt at gmail

Jun 19, 2008, 11:06 AM

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Re: revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14 [In reply to]

Nevermind. Apologies for the premature question. It appears that Openoffice
with needs Firefox 2.0.0.14- I just dropped the firefox use flag, as I don't
see that as necessary, necessarily.

Thanks

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Jason Messerschmitt <
jasonmesserschmitt[at]gmail.com> wrote:

> Help me stop this from happening please.
>

felix at crowfix

Jun 19, 2008, 11:06 AM

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Re: revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14 [In reply to]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote:
> Help me stop this from happening please.

In my recent troubles with emerge -ev world, I had a similar problem,
which was cured by converting the "firefox" use flag into "xulrunner".

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jasonmesserschmitt at gmail

Jun 19, 2008, 12:37 PM

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Re: revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14 [In reply to]

Could you elaborate. What is xulrunner exactly?

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, <felix[at]crowfix.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote:
> > Help me stop this from happening please.
>
> In my recent troubles with emerge -ev world, I had a similar problem,
> which was cured by converting the "firefox" use flag into "xulrunner".
>
> --
> ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._.
> Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix[at]crowfix.com
> GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license
> #4933
> I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of
> room o
> --
> gentoo-user[at]lists.gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

daniel.pielmeier at googlemail

Jun 19, 2008, 1:14 PM

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Re: revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14 [In reply to]

Jason Messerschmitt schrieb:
> Could you elaborate. What is xulrunner exactly?
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, <felix[at]crowfix.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote:
>>> Help me stop this from happening please.
>> In my recent troubles with emerge -ev world, I had a similar problem,
>> which was cured by converting the "firefox" use flag into "xulrunner".
>>
>> --
>> ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._.
>> Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix[at]crowfix.com
>> GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license
>> #4933
>> I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of
>> room o
>> --
>> gentoo-user[at]lists.gentoo.org mailing list
>>
>>
>

Firefox 3 has been ported to use xulrunner [1,2,3] instead of gecko as
rendering engine. The main advantage of xulrunner for source based
distributions like gentoo is that building firefox (and other apps which
are ported to xulrunner) is way faster than before, because they can use
xulrunner as a shared runtime environment. This is more beneficial if
you use many apps based on xulrunner. Before you needed the runtime
environment for every single app. Now the source of firefox, thunderbird
and sunbird is about three times the size of seamonkey which contains
the same functionalities of the three apps. With the new xulrunner this
will change and you save a lot of bandwith too.

As for myself I have replaced the firefox use-flags with xulrunner,
although it will take some time to gain benefit from this.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/GRE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XULRunner
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jasonmesserschmitt at gmail

Jun 19, 2008, 1:54 PM

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Re: revdep-rebuild wants to downgrade firefox from 3 to 2.0.0.14 [In reply to]

That's really nice to know. Thank you.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Daniel Pielmeier <
daniel.pielmeier[at]googlemail.com> wrote:

> Jason Messerschmitt schrieb:
>
> Could you elaborate. What is xulrunner exactly?
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:06 PM, <felix[at]crowfix.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Jason Messerschmitt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Help me stop this from happening please.
>>>>
>>> In my recent troubles with emerge -ev world, I had a similar problem,
>>> which was cured by converting the "firefox" use flag into "xulrunner".
>>>
>>> --
>>> ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._.
>>> Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix[at]crowfix.com
>>> GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license
>>> #4933
>>> I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of
>>> room o
>>> --
>>> gentoo-user[at]lists.gentoo.org mailing list
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> Firefox 3 has been ported to use xulrunner [1,2,3] instead of gecko as
> rendering engine. The main advantage of xulrunner for source based
> distributions like gentoo is that building firefox (and other apps which are
> ported to xulrunner) is way faster than before, because they can use
> xulrunner as a shared runtime environment. This is more beneficial if you
> use many apps based on xulrunner. Before you needed the runtime environment
> for every single app. Now the source of firefox, thunderbird and sunbird is
> about three times the size of seamonkey which contains the same
> functionalities of the three apps. With the new xulrunner this will change
> and you save a lot of bandwith too.
>
> As for myself I have replaced the firefox use-flags with xulrunner,
> although it will take some time to gain benefit from this.
>
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/GRE
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XULRunner
> --
> gentoo-user[at]lists.gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

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