Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-20 Thread Michael Moore
On 19:32 Wed 19 Nov , Beso wrote: well, xulrunner is there as a dependency for firefox and so if you want to light up a little your system you could remove firefox and go only with xulrunner. just put -firefox xulrunner into your make.conf, uninstall firefox and recompile the stuff that

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-19 Thread Michael Moore
On 20:19 Tue 18 Nov , Beso wrote: firefox-bin is worse than firefox on an amd64 system. so, if you think that a bin version would be faster than a non bin version you're quite wrong. Apologies guys if i didn't make it clear. I wanted to remove firefox. The -bin version i was talking of,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-19 Thread Michael Moore
On 11:41 Tue 18 Nov , Paul Hartman wrote: I don't have any on my system, using xulrunner. I can remove firefox and emerge never tries to bring it back from the dead. However, as you noticed, xulrunner is basically as big as firefox. An added bonus, though, is that firefox itself can

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-19 Thread Beso
2008/11/19 Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 20:19 Tue 18 Nov , Beso wrote: firefox-bin is worse than firefox on an amd64 system. so, if you think that a bin version would be faster than a non bin version you're quite wrong. Apologies guys if i didn't make it clear. I wanted to remove

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-19 Thread Beso
2008/11/19 Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11:41 Tue 18 Nov , Paul Hartman wrote: I don't have any on my system, using xulrunner. I can remove firefox and emerge never tries to bring it back from the dead. However, as you noticed, xulrunner is basically as big as firefox. An added

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread Qian Qiao
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 15:26, Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to remove firefox from my system and stick with only opera. However, i have run into a dilemma % equery d mozilla-firefox [ Searching for packages depending on www-client/mozilla-firefox... ]

[gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Moore
Hi, I am trying to remove firefox from my system and stick with only opera. However, i have run into a dilemma % equery d mozilla-firefox [ Searching for packages depending on www-client/mozilla-firefox... ] app-text/acroread-8.1.3 (x86 !minimal? www-client/mozilla-firefox)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to remove firefox from my system and stick with only opera. However, i have run into a dilemma % equery d mozilla-firefox [ Searching for packages depending on www-client/mozilla-firefox... ]

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Moore
On 15:25 Tue 18 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: The in the ebuild: =media-video/gnome-mplayer-0.6.2 || ( =net-libs/xulrunner-1.8* =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2* =www-client/seamonkey-1* www-client/epiphany ) So if you don't want =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2*, you can use

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread Qian Qiao
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 16:44, Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15:25 Tue 18 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: The in the ebuild: =media-video/gnome-mplayer-0.6.2 || ( =net-libs/xulrunner-1.8* =www-client/mozilla-firefox-2* =www-client/seamonkey-1* www-client/epiphany ) So if you don't

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Moore
On 10:22 Tue 18 Nov , Paul Hartman wrote: Many (but not all) of this type of package can be built against xulrunner instead of firefox/seamonkey. Some do it automatically and some need the USE flags to be set up this way. Get rid of any firefox or seamonkey use flags and add +xulrunner use

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Moore
On 16:45 Tue 18 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: By the look of the ebuild, it doesn't look like it wants xulrunner-bin. -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't. Indeed it doesn't. What i wanted to know was that can the bin package provide the files

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10:22 Tue 18 Nov , Paul Hartman wrote: Many (but not all) of this type of package can be built against xulrunner instead of firefox/seamonkey. Some do it automatically and some need the USE flags to be set up this

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread David Fellows
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:30:56 +0530 Michael Moore wrote - On 16:45 Tue 18 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: By the look of the ebuild, it doesn't look like it wants xulrunner-bin. -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't. Indeed it doesn't.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is it possible to get rid of firefox?

2008-11-18 Thread Beso
2008/11/18 David Fellows [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:30:56 +0530 Michael Moore wrote - On 16:45 Tue 18 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: By the look of the ebuild, it doesn't look like it wants xulrunner-bin. -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and