[gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and mozilla blocking seamonkey

[gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and mozilla blocking seamonkey

[Jacob Klitmøller]

Hi

Since Gnome 2.14 is marked stable I thought to upgrade :-)

However when I try to emerge gnome I get

[blocks B     ] www-client/seamonkey (is blocking www-client/mozilla-1.7.13)

or the other way around (mozilla blocking seamonkey) - trying to /etc
/portage/package.mask is of no use since both is required. I have also
tried fiddeling fith USE, but with no luck.

How do I resolve this and get gnome 2.14 emerged?

Thanks

Jacob

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Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and mozilla blocking seamonkey

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Jacob Klitmøller wrote:
> However when I try to emerge gnome I get
> 
> [blocks B     ] www-client/seamonkey (is blocking www-client/mozilla-1.7.13)
> 
> or the other way around (mozilla blocking seamonkey) - trying to /etc
> /portage/package.mask is of no use since both is required. I have also
> tried fiddeling fith USE, but with no luck.
> 
> How do I resolve this and get gnome 2.14 emerged?

Seamonkey is the replacement for mozilla. The old mozilla package is
full of security holes and no longer maintained by upstream, so we're
transitioning all packages using it to either seamonkey or firefox, if
possible.

The problem is that not everything is transitioned over to seamonkey
yet. I think if you add www-client/mozilla to /etc/portage/package.mask,
it will show you what package is trying to pull it in. You can then
search for / file a bug for that package.

Thanks,
Donnie


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[gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and mozilla blocking seamonkey

[Jacob Klitmøller]

Hi

Since Gnome 2.14 is marked stable I thought to upgrade.

However when I try to emerge gnome I get

[blocks B     ] www-client/seamonkey (is blocking www-client/mozilla-1.7.13)

or the other way around (mozilla blocking seamonkey) - trying to /etc
/portage/package.mask is of no use since both is required. I have also
tried fiddeling fith USE, but with no luck.

How do I resolve this and get gnome 2.14 emerged?

Thanks

Jacob

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Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and mozilla blocking seamonkey

[Thomas Kear]

# echo "www-client/mozilla-1.7.13" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
# emerge -C mozilla
# emerge seamonkey

Should do it.

If you're attached to mozilla just add seamonkey to package.provided
instead in the same manner.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey blocking mozilla and mozilla blocking seamonkey

[Dale]

Thomas Kear wrote:
> # echo "www-client/mozilla-1.7.13" >>
> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided
> # emerge -C mozilla
> # emerge seamonkey
>
> Should do it.
>
> If you're attached to mozilla just add seamonkey to package.provided
> instead in the same manner.
>
>

I replaced mine a while back and I can not see any difference between
Mozilla and Seamonkey.  It looks the same and even saw my .mozilla
directory and all my settings and email was there.

That may ease your mind about switching a little bit.

Dale

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