[gentoo-dev] Re: Netscape Packages

[Paul <set@pobox.com>]

John Dee <antitux@netscape.com>, on Fri Apr 12, 2002 [01:25:58 PM] said:
> WHOA!!
> okay, we're going off on a tangent here.
> I don't want to make netscape 6 the DEFAULT BROWSER,
> I want to make netscpae 6.2.2 the DEFAULT BROWSER FOR NETSCAPE PRODUCTS.
> hence, if you did `emerge netscape`, or `emerge netscape-browser` it'd 
> install netscape 6.2.2.
> 
> I've talked to jnelson on irc.
> We pretty much came to the same conclusion that it's not that bad of an 
> idea, and extremely possible.
> What would happen, is that netscape communicator 4.x would have the 
> binary renamed netscape-communicator
> while netscape navigator 4.x would be renamed netscape-navigator
> then when you typed `netscape`, the browser that came up would be 
> netscape 6.2.2.

	Hi;

	Netscape 4 is really an entirely differnt beast than
netscape 6, no? The net-www/navigator and net-www/netscape
targets should remain, but if a netscape 6 ebuild is made,
it should be in 'netscape-6' and/or 'navigator-6'.
	I bet you would like to have it the other way around,
but I think the 'classic' netscape should be the 'default'
for now.
	Of course, having netscape-4 and netscape-6 is
also acceptable. Make  'netscape' a symlink to the one thats
most reasonably the 'real' netscape.

> The only problem is the installer. It's evil. There's really no way to 
> work around it though.
> about the only thing you can pull out and install manually (non-gui) is 
> the JRE.

	I think in a later post, you reverse this opinion?
Spider isnt clear on this either. (Is this why the version of
navigator is *4.08* instead of 4.7x ?)
	As far as the gui installer goes, is there a
click-through license agreement? I dont think the ebuild system
allows you do stuff before downloading the target... but that
would be the best place to be confronted with an accept or
not prompt.

Paul
set@pobox.com