[gentoo-dev] Re: Netscape Packages

[Aadi Deshpande <cilqproj@yahoo.com>]

Why not create a netscape6 portage subdir and migrate up to it when netscape6 is 
ReadyForPrimeTime.

I do agree that it's best to keep N4 around for a lot of reasons and, most likely, Netscape will
release a 6.3 or 6.4 version based on 1.0 and maybe the banks will start changing their minds
around then.  Even at our company, we use N4.7 as a baseline for our web coding because 10% of our
visitors still use it.


BTW, Citibank has never given me problems from Mozilla.  ING, however, is another beat.


Aadi

Ref To:

Message: 13
From: George Shapovalov <georges@its.caltech.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:04:09 -0700
Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

It will become default (by the way ebuilds are processed) if you put new=20
netscape-6 ebuild into the same directory (check net-www, there are quite=
 a=20
few netscape-related dirs there).
However IMHO it would be unwise to block netscape-4 as many people still =
use=20
it (and some may be hesitant to go with netscape-6).
If there are no special reasons, [ebuilds for] different versions of pack=
age=20
can coexist within portage tree. The one having highest version and revis=
ion=20
number is chosen if user does not select version specifically. Sometimes=20
lower versions are installed, but this is the case when that lower versio=
n of=20
package is listed as dependency for something.

George

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