On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 01:05:30AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > > I have another idea. We already have firefox-bin and libreoffice-bin > ebuilds where the compiled tarball is pulled down from upstream, and > untarred. Would this work on Pale Moon? I guess it comes down to > whether or not python 2.7 is a run-time dependancy as well as a build > time dependency. I'll ask on the Pale Moon forum.
I checked, and it looks like python 2.7 is build-time dependency only. Pale Moon will *RUN* just fine without python. Runtime system requirements according to http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/ * A modern Linux distribution. The browser may not work well on old or LTS releases of Linux. * A modern processor (must have SSE2 support as the absolute minimum). * 1GB of RAM (2GB or more recommended for heavy use). * GTK+ v2.24 * GLib 2.22 or higher * Pango 1.14 or higher * libstdc++ 4.6.1 or higher So a "palemoon-bin" ebuild is possible. But is it necessary? If you pull down and extract the precompiled tarball to your home dir, it can be set to check for, and do, updates (as long as you have write permission to the Pale Moon directory). No need for portage to do it. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
