[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will have to stop using it someday, and I won't bother with an > overlay. But last time I tried seamonkey it was unstable unreliable > junk. What I want to understand is why seamonkey and mozilla can't > coexist. They have different names, but even if they didn't, there > are slots for apache and apache2, as many different kernels as you > could possibly want, and ... mozilla and seamonkey conflict with each > other. Why?
From my understanding (I might be wrong here though) it is quite an amount of work to go from "only Mozilla & Firefox" to "Mozilla, Seamonkey and Firefox". The point is not the installation of these packages but the dozens of packages that use some part of Mozilla/FF/Seamonkey during compilation / runtime. Considering the workload of the devs maintaining Mozilla packages in Gentoo it's not a "they cannot get along for technical reasons" but a "doing this isn't worth the effort as Mozilla is leaving sooner rather than later" decision. The situation with all three packages in the tree is only relatively short-lived (a couple of months), Mozilla is deprecated for security reasons, Seamonkey considered a drop-in replacement. I'm sorry it doesn't work for you like it should (I'm a Firefox user myself), but I don't think this situation will change...
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