Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages

[antitux@netscape.com (John Dee)]

One more question I've got.
Would you guys be willing to replace netscape 4.x with netscape 6 as the 
default browser?
Since netscape 4.x isn't really being maintained anymore (I do builds 
once a week, blah bleh), and the 6.x line is nscp's main focus, would 
you guys be willing to make netscape6 the default netscape browser?

George Shapovalov wrote:
> If you would like to see Netscape 6 in gentoo and are willing to spend some 
> time on it, please do contribute by any means.
> Now to the technical stuff.
> You do not need to know many details about portage code. What is getting 
> submitted is a set of build instructions wrapped in a bash script (and as 
> such, the tarball itself will not help much).
> Please see:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html
> for a description on how to create such an ebuild 
> (bash script (quite often very basic) containing install instructions). You 
> can also look at ebuilds for other packages.
> The ebuild and any necessary supplementary files (patches, etc) are to be 
> submitted to http://bugs.gentoo.org, this page contains an ebuild submission 
> description:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ebuild-submit.html.
> 
> If you still do not feel like creating an ebuild file (BTW you can always go 
> to #gentoo channel at irc.openprojects.net to get some real-time ebuild 
> creation assistance) you can instead submit build instructions and any url 
> pointers to bugs.gentoo.org as a feature request ( but this will take more 
> time to process for obvious reasons :)).
> 
> George
> 
> 
> On Friday 12 April 2002 11:32, John Dee wrote:
> 
>>I was looking at your netscape packages, and was wondering why you guys
>>weren't using the 6.x series. The reason I ask, is that the 4.x series
>>probably won't have another release (I'm the *NIX build engineer on the
>>project).
>>I'm also one of the build engineers on the 6.x project.
>>Also, if needed, I could make a 6.x package for you guys. It really
>>wouldn't take much to do.
>>The only thing that might be a problem is the fact I don't know portage
>>yet (I've been using gentoo a total of about 3 days).
>>I *COULD* supply you guys with a tarball, and instructions, if you want.
>>
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