On 1/15/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trenton Adams schreef: > > On 1/14/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 1/14/06, Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> The old version could disable gnome, but 1.5 can't. Perhaps it's > >>> a firefox 1.5 ebuild limitation? I hope that's what it is, > >>> because I can't stand gnome. > >> False. > >> > >> carcharias rjf # ldd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin | grep > >> gnome carcharias rjf # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox > >> > >> These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > >> > >> Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] > >> www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9 USE="java -debug -gnome -ipv6 > >> -mozdevelop -xinerama -xprint" 0 kB > > > > If you already have gnome installed, gnome won't show up unless you > > go --tree, will it? Either way, you can take a look in the ebuild > > file for firefox 1.5, and there's no reference to gnome. No checking > > of the gnome useflag or anything like that. 1.0.7 has it though. > > > > The appearance of USE flags (which is what we're talking about) is > unrelated to whether or not you have the package installed already-- a > USE flag does not appear or disappear based on whether you have the > relevant package installed. In fact, the USE flag controls to great > degree whether you install the relevant dependency or not (i.e., if K3b > optionally depends on KDE, then enabling the "kde" USE flag will install > additional, optional KDE support programs. But since K3b requires > kdelibs and kdebase to run at all, these hard dependencies are not > controlled by the USE flag).
Oh, I get it. the thing that confused me was that he put the "USE=", so I thought he was showing me what use flags he had set, not the output of the emerge command. Now I see he was showing the output of the emerge command and adding "USE=". Either that, or he's using a newer version of emerge that outputs "USE=" for him. > > In any case: > > emerge -pv mozilla-firefox gnome-light > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9 USE="gnome java > xprint -debug -ipv6 -mozdevelop -xinerama" 0 kB > [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-light-2.12.0 0 kB > > As you see, I do have GNOME installed, and the "gnome" USE flag does > still appear in the Firefox prospective emerge output. > > > |> Runtime Dependencies > |> mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9 > |> > |> gnome >= gnome-base/gnome-vfs - 2.3.5 > > |> Title: gnome-vfs > |> Description: Gnome Virtual Filesystem > > So enabling the gnome USE flag adds a runtime dependency on the GNOME > virtual file system. > > Which sounds an awful lot like something that might affect dialogs. > > However, since there were a lot of complaints about the old dialog, I > strongly doubt that disabling this flag would change the dialogs > terribly significantly, except that you wouldn't have the GNOME extras > that I mentioned before. It's quite likely that even the "naked" new > dialog is a lot like the current GNOME dialog. > > And again, the likely reason that there is no reference to GNOME in the > ebuild is because the references to GNOME integration and compatibility > are *in the source code*, because the *Mozilla developers chose* this > dialog *as the default* (but not the only) choice of dialog. That is > their good right, just as it is your good right to change that if you so > desire (since that is apparently quite possible to do). > > Ebuilds don't do anything but compile the code as given, with some > slight modification to work within the Gentoo system (as opposed to the > RedHat system or the SuSE system). Ebuilds certainly don't change things > as integral to the operation of the program as the format and type of > file dialogs. > > I suppose you could trawl through the source and see where this is set > and then write an ebuild to make the choice of file dialog type a > configure option-- maybe. If it's already a configure option. Which I > doubt. But you could look. > > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
