RE: [gentoo-dev] MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME

[Simon Reynolds <sproket@adelphia.net>]

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:38, Jeff Griffiths wrote:
> Hi Simon
> 
> sorry if terse translates to upset, that wasn't my intended 
> tone. try confused? ...and typing at high speed.
> 
My apologies for jumping to conclusions, that wasn't very mature of me.
> yes the workaround is effective and my gentoo / Komodo user 
> is now happy. what i'm really curious about is why gentoo 
> mozilla does this in the first place - other mozillas tend 
> not to PERMANENTLY set this var as it has the tendency to
> interfere with other mozilla-based applications ( like 
> Komodo ).
I don't know all the reasons, and I am not a developer. But from what I
can tell several older ebuilds still in the portage tree that depend on
mozilla like nautilus, galeon, evolution etc. use it to find where
mozilla is at for things like linking, etc. For the newest versions of
those packages, however, it is no longer being used. And up-to-date
versions of galeon, evolution and mozilla all seem to work fine without
it being set.


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