Re: Mozilla Seamonkey in pkgsrc-wip

[walt <wa1ter%myrealbox.com@localhost>]

Steven J. Dovich wrote:
> Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>> Now the questions: do we want Seamonkey in pkgsrc?  In that case, will we
>> continue maintaining the (deprecated) Mozilla Suite packages, or will we
>> drop them?  (We could keep the pkgsrc/www/mozilla dir for stuff shared
>> across the different mozilla packages.) 
> 
> Please maintain the mozilla packages for a bit longer.  I built and
> installed Seamonkey from pkgsrc-wip (after de-installing mozilla-gtk2)
> and found that it was much more unstable than mozilla. A bit more
> confidence building will be needed before mozilla can go.

I agree, I'm sorry to say.  Seamonkey has imported great gobs of code
from both firefox and thunderbird, including a good many bugs which
no one at mozilla seems in any hurry to fix -- there are bug reports
over two years old which are being ignored to death.



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