Re: [gentoo-amd64] Seamonkey vs Mozilla cage match round two

[B Nice <Anonymous_Pseudonym_88@yahoo.ca>]

>I will have to stop using it someday, and I won't bother with an
>overlay.  But last time I tried seamonkey it was unstable unreliable
>junk.  What I want to understand is why seamonkey and mozilla can't
>coexist.  They have different names, but even if they didn't, there
>are slots for apache and apache2, as many different kernels as you
>could possibly want, and ... mozilla and seamonkey conflict with each
>other.  Why?

You'll be happy to know that the crashiness of seamonkey had been solved
a couple of months ago.  It has been and still is rock solid on my main
system, my better halfs system and <shudder> my gaming system (Read as
Windows XP laptop).  I've actually had more trouble with FF collapsing
then with seamonkey.  Of course YMMV

As for you main question.  Maybe seamonkey and mozilla clash with each
other because they are so close to being the same thing.  Some dev
likely looked at it and said that they're too close to bother
differentiating.  Hence your current problem, and the problem I faced
when seamonkey was first dropped into the ebuild system with nothing
being built against it.

B Vance 

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