On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2009 18:02:10 Grant Edwards wrote: >> I just build firefox and noticed the following warning in the >> ebuild output, and I'm a bit baffled by the grammar: >> >> All the packages built against mozilla-firefox won't >> compile, if after installing firefox 3.0 you get some >> blockers, please add 'xulrunner' to your USE-flags. >> >> Does anybody have idea what the above sentence is trying to say? > > It's saying that if you use firefox -3*, then you should > remove "firefox" from your USE and add "xulrunner" instead. > This way, nothing in the tree will try to pull in firefox-2* > (which obviously conflicts with firefox-3*).
Wow. I'm not doubting that what you say is true, but how anybody was supposed to get that from the emerge message is beyond me. > There have been 4 earlier threads on this very topic in the > last fortnight. For more details, please check the recent > archives (rehashing the same thing over and over is getting > really tedious) Sort of makes you wonder if the message is a bit too cryptic, eh? -- Grant
