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*). 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) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
