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.

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...