Hi all,

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:22:47PM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
[...]
> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 13:30 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > Yeah, that bugs the hell out of me, too.  I don't use "mozilla" but
> > instead mozilla-firefox and I find it annoying that I have to have
> > "mozilla" listed in package.use to get the plugin to install.
>=20
> Same here.
>=20
> > IMHO it should install it no matter what, as it used to do, especially
> > considering that the "install" is just a directory and a symlink.
>=20
> Yes, I would welcome such a change. The 'mozilla' use flag should imho
> not be used to determine whether or not the user has a mozilla-based web
> browser, but weather or not the user wishes to link software against
> mozilla libraries (which will require net-www/mozilla to be installed).


The problem is: USE=3D"mozilla" is used to determine if the user want to
have a browserplugin _in general_ not just only if the user have a
mozilla-based browser.

I think the following scheme would be a good idea:



       Useflag           Description / Use
============================================================================
   o.  gecko             Specifies if an ebuild comes with mozilla-support.=
                         E.g. net-www/liferea
============================================================================
   o.  mozilla-ssl       Specifies if an application could link against=20
                         mozilla-libraries. E.g. net-im/gaim,
                         mail-client/evolution
============================================================================
   o. browserplugin      Specifies if a browserplugin should be build if
                         a package provides one

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Regards, Lars Strojny
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