On Monday 19 January 2009 06:32:00 Grant Edwards wrote: > > This has now been fixed, the engine is now in a package called > > xulrunner which firefox builds against. Other apps also need > > xulrunner, but if you keep "USE=firefox" intact those apps > > will pull in all of firefox-2 just to get gecko. If you have > > firefox-3 installed, you have an instant blocker. With > > "USE=xulrunner" they will build against xulrunner and firefox > > can be whatever you feel like installing. > > Now I'm confused. I thought xulrunner was the user-interface > engine rather than the rendering engine.
You might well be right. I don't concern myself too much with the details. The important bit is that xulrunner does something important, and the two flags control it. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
