Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Thus spake Donnie Berkholz on Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:06:25AM CDT >> Lindsay Haisley wrote: >>> Seamonkey isn't installed so it shouldn't be blocking anything. I don't >>> want >>> it installed. Mozilla _is_ installed, and I don't want to un-install it. >>> I >>> can't run this update until this is resolved. >>> >>> Should I report this as a bug? >> No, seamonkey is the replacement for mozilla. The old mozilla package is >> full of security holes and no longer maintained by upstream, so we're >> transitioning all packages using it to either seamonkey or firefox, if >> possible. > > Thanks, Donnie. Tobias Heinlein said I ought to use 'firefox' instead of > 'mozilla' in my USE flags. Does this square with current recommended > practice > from the Gentoo devs? I note that unmerging mozilla nukes galeon, on which I > depend. Galeon will USE firefox (which I assume provides its rendering > engine), but not seamonkey.
Well, USE=firefox or USE=seamonkey, depending on how you want to go. galeon-2.0.1-r2 at least uses seamonkey, I just looked at it. > Is this issue documented anywhere? Is there a periodic newsletter to which I > can subscribe which will keep me up to speed with these changes, similar to > what the Debain Weekly News does for Debian? There is the GWN [1]. I'm unsure whether it has published anything about this. > Mozilla may be old and fusty, but it's the browser that emerged like a a > phoenix from the MS/Netscape "browser wars" partly as a result of Eric > Raymond's famous "The Cathedral and The Bazaar" essay. I know the mozilla > code > is a nightmare to work with, but it's certaily a venerable piece of work and > I > hope, if only for that reason, that it continues to be available as an ebuild > in Gentoo. Seamonkey, for all intents and purposes, _is_ mozilla and will be the continuation of it. The 'mozilla' ebuild will be disappearing. Thanks, Donnie 1. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml
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