SVG and dependence on Firefox2.x?

[Kurt Buff]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:55, Giorgos Keramidas
<keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:51 -0700, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I notice that for both The Gimp and graphviz, and probably for others
>> as well, marking them or their dependencies as able to render SVG
>> invokes installation of FF 2.x.
>>
>> This fails, as the port is marked as forbidden, and then the
>> installation of these graphics programs fails.
>>
>> Not a huge deal, but any way to work around it?
>
> You can build most of the ports that depend on GECKO with the following
> in your `/etc/make.conf' file:
>
>    WITH_GECKO=         libxul
>
> I just finished rebuilding my packages in a chroot with this option, and
> firefox 2.x was not required for a full x11/gnome2 build:
>
> # pkg_info | fgrep firefo
> firefox-3.5.3,1     Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
> #


Even better.

Many thanks.

Kurt