From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gle4i-0005dW-PH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:14:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAJ4CmWM021325; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:12:48 GMT Received: from crowfix.com (crowfix.com [216.240.38.154]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAJ4CibA019693 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:12:46 GMT Received: (qmail 29467 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Nov 2006 04:12:41 -0000 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:12:41 -0800 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Seamonkey vs Mozilla cage match round two Message-ID: <20061119041241.GA29439@crowfix.com> References: <20061118072026.GA12976@crowfix.com> <455EBA11.3080108@gmx.de> <20061118144602.GA28579@crowfix.com> <1163889344.9260.3.camel@laptop> <20061119004207.GA16779@crowfix.com> <455FC29E.7040104@gmx.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <455FC29E.7040104@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: f063eecb-6a71-496f-bef3-58572663b21e X-Archives-Hash: 840117283d43a78fdd272ee02a7b9365 On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 03:34:06AM +0100, Michael Weyersh?user wrote: > felix@crowfix.com wrote: > > 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? > > From my understanding (I might be wrong here though) it is quite an > amount of work to go from "only Mozilla & Firefox" to "Mozilla, > Seamonkey and Firefox". The point is not the installation of these > packages but the dozens of packages that use some part of > Mozilla/FF/Seamonkey during compilation / runtime. Considering the > workload of the devs maintaining Mozilla packages in Gentoo it's not a > "they cannot get along for technical reasons" but a "doing this isn't > worth the effort as Mozilla is leaving sooner rather than later" > decision. The situation with all three packages in the tree is only > relatively short-lived (a couple of months), Mozilla is deprecated for > security reasons, Seamonkey considered a drop-in replacement. That makes more sense, if you mean packages have to choose at build time which of the two to support. > I'm sorry it doesn't work for you like it should (I'm a Firefox user > myself), but I don't think this situation will change... I use firefox too, but I don't like the preferences being so much more limited than mozilla. I could always use about:config or whatever that is, but I might as well edit the raw preferences file. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@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-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list