On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote: > On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't >>>>> compile, if after installing firefox 3.0 you get some >>>>> blockers, please add 'xulrunner' to your USE-flags. >>>>> >>>>> Does anybody have idea what the above sentence is trying to say? >>>> >>>> It's saying that if you use firefox -3*, then you should >>>> remove "firefox" from your USE and add "xulrunner" instead. >>>> This way, nothing in the tree will try to pull in firefox-2* >>>> (which obviously conflicts with firefox-3*). >>> >>> Wow. I'm not doubting that what you say is true, but how >>> anybody was supposed to get that from the emerge message is >>> beyond me. >>> >>>> There have been 4 earlier threads on this very topic in the >>>> last fortnight. For more details, please check the recent >>>> archives (rehashing the same thing over and over is getting >>>> really tedious) >>> >>> Sort of makes you wonder if the message is a bit too cryptic, >>> eh? >> >> If I read that message out loud, it sounds suspiciously like a >> babelfish translation from Japanese to English. Whatever it >> is, the author of the message is certainly not a native >> English speaker. >> >> But the intent is easy to see if you already know how it >> works. > > Yes, once somebody has told you the answer, it's possible to > make some sense of the message. But, I stand by my assertion > that give just the message very many people are going to figure > out that it means you need to replace the "firefox" use flag > with the "xulrunner" use flag so that apps will build against > firefox-3 instead of trying to build against firefox-2.
Someone should file a bug to have the message changed to something clearer.
