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Subject: Re: [HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future
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Martin Wilke <miwi@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).