Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9 slotting or not?

[Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>]

Duncan wrote:
> Unslotted xulrunner seems to be the consensus, so we aren't committing to 
> "forever" maintain patches ourselves -- on a package-base that may well 
> expand over time.

The consensus is to have updated applications, the new xulrunner seems 
quite an improvement so make _quite_ sense move towards it.

> Some questions.  What's the possibility of getting upstream to handle the 
> renaming, thereby making slotting much easier while eliminating the 
> "eternal" patch commitment?  Has the issue even been brought up with 
> mozilla-upstream?  I know they aren't always the most receptive to 
> community suggestions, but it's worth asking, anyway.

Discussing with upstream this would be good as well, BUT you shouldn't 
rely on that.

> How many packages are we talking about?

A list had been produced already and is relatively short and some are 
just nsplugins (and those shouldn't require a change)

lu

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Luca Barbato
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