From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 12 21:29:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D276216A400 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:29:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crs@sorsby.org) Received: from sorsby.org (sorsby.org [216.184.15.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680FF43D46 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:29:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from crs@sorsby.org) Received: from sorsby.org (localhost.sorsby.org [127.0.0.1]) by sorsby.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2CLSiDO044718; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:28:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from crs@sorsby.org) Received: (from crs@localhost) by sorsby.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k2CLSakV044717; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:28:36 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from crs) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:28:36 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200603122128.k2CLSakV044717@sorsby.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-URL: file://localhost/usr/ports/www/firefox/README.html X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.8.5rel.1 X-Personal_Name: : Charlie Sorsby From: crs@swcp.com Cc: crs@swcp.com Subject: file://localhost/usr/ports/www/firefox/README.html X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:29:38 -0000 Hello, At the very least, the port of firefox in the freeBSD (4.11) ports collection should be labeled gnome-dependent. I do not run gnome or any other desktop-environment; I use fvwm2 (and would use fvwm if they hadn't deleted it from the 4.11 distribution). It's really frustrating to cd to what appears to be a generic port, type make install, and have a damnable point-and-click ala sysinstall appear in my xterm -- but one that doesn't reapond either to the arrow keys or the mouse. Better yet, it would check to see if gnome is running (I assume that that's what it thought) and either provide an error message to the effect that it requires gnome or, even better, when it finds not only that it isn't running but that it isn't even installed, reverts to a generic installation of firefox that will run under *any* window manager. Thank you for your attention. Charlie -- Charlie Sorsby crs@swcp.com P. O. Box 1225 Edgewood, NM 87015 USA Why HTML in e-mail is evil: http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html and (possibly) how to turn it off: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html