Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with portage

["Fernando Antunes" <fs.antunes@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:03 AM, econti <contiemilio@alice.it> wrote:

> AllenJB ha scritto:
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>> On to your next issue where 2 versions of firefox are being pulled in.
>> First of all you need to remove the package.mask entry you added, since it
>> masked out all versions of firefox above 2.0.0 - that includes both firefox
>> 2 and firefox 3 - not particularly useful.
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>> The correct resolution here is not obvious. You need to edit your
>> /etc/make.conf and set "-firefox xulrunner". This is because a core piece of
>> the mozilla framework, on which firefox is built, called xulrunner has been
>> split out from the firefox package. This will help to avoid issues in the
>> future and allow for faster upgrades. This change should get all
>> applications using firefox 3 instead of firefox 2.
>>
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Please, help me to understand more about this.
firefox use flag is for version 2 and xulrunner is for version 3 ?


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> That worked fine!
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>> AllenJB
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> Thank you, AllenJB
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> emilio
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