[HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future
perryh at pluto.rain.com
perryh at pluto.rain.com
Sat Aug 22 21:24:54 UTC 2009
Martin Wilke <miwi at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Background:
> We have a lot of old stuff on the portstree and it's time
> to cleanup old stuff.
...
> * www/nvu last official release was in 2005, no longer
> supported, and also some vulnerabilities. We have
> www/kompozer which also need an update to get this
> unbroken.
...
> Problems which we have to solve:
> Some Gnome ports need www/firefox to build and work,
> but unfortunately firefox2 isn't longer supported by
> the Mozilla Foundation.
So, if I am understanding this correctly, it's proposed to
replace nvu with an updated kompozer, which to judge from
the name is part of KDE. Thus Gnome acquires a dependency
on KDE by way of firefox/gecko? This does not seem like a
Good Thing (TM).
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