From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Oj2KJ-0006xT-Lb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:50:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F229FE0A7C; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9A37E0878 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (c-98-248-32-246.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [98.248.32.246]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 41C111B4009 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4C621E17.8040004@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:50:47 -0700 From: =?UTF-8?B?IlBhd2XFgiBIYWpkYW4sIEpyLiI=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins References: <4C61C4B0.4080203@gentoo.org> <20100811012805.788583a6@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: <20100811012805.788583a6@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig04CDAFCB0F9DDE3D46B1E181" X-Archives-Salt: a9974e84-2c18-49c2-9b53-52c5fe8b0eab X-Archives-Hash: 3c1d0aae8cdda826a6bdb42758c3ec92 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig04CDAFCB0F9DDE3D46B1E181 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 8/10/10 4:28 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: >> Gentoo uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/nsbrowser/plugins for browser plugins. >> However, Debian uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/mozilla/plugins, and that's >> what many software projects (including Chromium) target. >=20 > Could you name them? Opera looks into tons of directories. Sorry, I used a weasel word "many software projects" without naming them. I don't know packages other than www-client/chromium that would have problems with this. > You would then need to re-emerge all users of this eclass. I see. This puts some burden for our users with no obvious gains. > What's bugging Chromium? Why does it insist on using a competing > browser vendor's name instead of the much more neutral "nsbrowser", > which generally denotes browsers with a Netscape style plugin interface= ? Well, the fact that every distributions chooses its own directory for NPAPI plugins is sort of sad. The number of directories that have to be searched for plugins is ridiculously long. I was talking with Evan Martin, a Chromium developer, and he asked whether Gentoo could switch to "mozilla/plugins", so I started this thread. After the results, my patch to add "nsbrowser/plugins" to the plugins search path is probably going to be accepted. By the way, I just wonder... why not _symlink_ "mozilla/plugins" to "nsbrowser/plugins"? That would solve the technical problem, while keeping a good, more general name. Pawe=C5=82 --------------enig04CDAFCB0F9DDE3D46B1E181 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkxiHhcACgkQuUQtlDBCeQI3iwCeKBbN9Q0O+D3smwxLdN6CoQ7N HlAAnjCjdKPMof2drzdZ/hT8Lv84+tGE =oNRx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig04CDAFCB0F9DDE3D46B1E181--