2008/11/19 Michael Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11:41 Tue 18 Nov , Paul Hartman wrote: >> I don't have any on my system, using xulrunner. I can remove firefox >> and emerge never tries to bring it back from the dead. However, as you >> noticed, xulrunner is basically as big as firefox. >> >> An added bonus, though, is that firefox itself can build against >> xulrunner, so if you're using xulrunner you might as well keep >> firefox. Firefox 3.x takes just 45 seconds to compile on my machine >> when using the xulrunner USE flag. >> >> Basically, if you want to use any gecko/mozilla/firefox plug-ins, >> you're stuck with some form of giant-package, either xulrunner or >> mozilla-firefox. > > I guess thats it then, i will have to perhaps keep it lying around. > I dont want to replace one heavyweight so that i can get punched by > another :-) Thanks for everybody's input though.
well, xulrunner is there as a dependency for firefox and so if you want to light up a little your system you could remove firefox and go only with xulrunner. just put -firefox xulrunner into your make.conf, uninstall firefox and recompile the stuff that needs recompilation. -- dott. ing. beso
