From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18241 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Sep 2003 15:44:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18383 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2003 15:44:31 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:31:09 -0700 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 Message-ID: <9CE5DB8B868DCA4FB1AB629707F01DE4313EA5@exchange.activestate.ca> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME Thread-Index: AcN4ebjiwzHVbPHyTCeRmKqZgzVVbA== From: "Jeff Griffiths" To: "Gentoo-Dev (E-mail)" Subject: [gentoo-dev] MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME X-Archives-Salt: 3749e7a2-c7e8-4560-80c1-051d1e9edb32 X-Archives-Hash: dd5b6db3ad79f4163a8a545bfb886688 why is MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME permanently set in gentoo? users trying to run gentoo mozilla and ActiveState Komodo cannot because MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME is permanently set by gentoo mozilla - this effectively breaks 3rd party / non-gentoo applications based on mozilla (including mozilla.org's binaries) why on gentoo is MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME permanently set? this isn't set by for example binaries from mozilla.org, which plays nice with Komodo workaround is either: simple: unset MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME ( can't code and browse web at same time ) complex: create komodo-specific user without MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME set in ENV, and su to that user to run komodo. or just do this: % unset MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME && komodo Jeff Griffiths ActiveState Technical Support http://www.ActiveState.com=20 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list