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Re: GNOME status update: GNOME Desktop completely packaged; and TODOs



Thomas Klausner wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 01:40:06PM -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> > This needs to be updated to use firefox3. I have tried and it appears 
> > that the installed SDK from www/firefox3 is incomplete. I have updated 
> > the wiki.
> 
> What is missing from the SDK?
> 
> The problem with firefox is that if you use the default install
> target, you have to install into a separate prefix because otherwise
> we have conflicts between all the various mozilla.org packages.
> The installed files are actually chosen based on the PLIST file in the
> package.
> This makes updates difficult...
> 
> Perhaps we should just switch to separate prefixes for all mozilla.org
> packages and use the default install target? Then we at least wouldn't
> have the problem of missing installation files.
>  Thomas

Well, we should just install it to a different namespace.
Mozilla was kinda designed to be installed that way.

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