Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 8/18/05, Christoph Gysin <cgysin@gmx.ch> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> >    It seems I've ended up with copies of Mozilla on the two machines I
> > used to check out Unison. Apparently, at least the way I emerged it,
> > the ebuild doesn't have any flags to effect this.
> 
> Found out some more:
> 
> You seem to have the 'gnome', 'mozilla' and 'gtk' or 'gtk2' useflag in your
> make.conf.
> 
> This is the relevant dependency tree (snipped out some stuff):
> 
> [ebuild  N    ] net-misc/unison-2.12.0  +gtk +gtk2
> [ebuild  N    ]  dev-ml/lablgtk-2.4.0  +gnome
> [ebuild  N    ]   gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.10.2
> [ebuild  N    ]    gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2.3  +mozilla
> [ebuild  N    ]     www-client/mozilla-1.7.11
> 
> You advised portage to build unison, which needs lablgtk. lablgtk gets built
> with gnome-support, so it needs gnome-panel, which in turn needs
> evolution-data-server. And since you have the global useflag mozilla, this will
> pull mozilla in.
> 
> Right? (could also be some other combination of use-flags, you get the idea)
> 
> Christoph

Christoph,
   Hi, I think you're basically right but this is a case where the
real meaning of flags is important? My understanding of the 'mozilla'
flag was that it instructed apps to build in support for Mozilla and
not that it required Mozilla to get emerged.

   My real thought here is not that I really want 'mozilla' support in
Unison but if any app needs a browser that it should be happy with
Firefox instead of any other app.

   I could look at removing the global mozilla flag and using it only
on certain apps, but really I'm wondering why Unison didn't accept
Firefox as a browser and wondering if the ebuild for it, or more
likely evolution-data-server, could be improved in that area.

thanks,
Mark
>

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