On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:

> > yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE.
> > firefox-bin is no use, the program needs the header files for either
> > firefox or xulrunner. The current recommendation is to use xulrunner
> > instead of firefox in this situation, and in your USE flags.  

> I am currently having no problems.  I use gnucash extensively and use
> firefox (not -bin) as well.  Is the recommendation to switch and add
> xulrunner to USE?  If the purpose is to avoid the need for firefox,
> that is not relevant to me.  If, however, xulrunner in some way
> improves gnucash, I might well want to try it.

It is to avoid the need for Firefox 2 installed from source, which is a
problem if you use Firefox 3 or firefox-bin. the xulrunner flag make
GnuCash, and other apps, build against xunrunner instead of the firefox 2
headers.

-- 
Neil Bothwick

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