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Subject: Re: Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3
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At 02:54 22/10/2011, Joe Altman wrote:
>Greetings...
>
>I was running portupgrade on libxul and noticed it depends on Firefox
>3.x. I cancelled the upgrade, because I thought FF3.x was insecure and
>therefore deprecated while FF7 was recommended and secure.
>
>My questions:
>
>1) is the dependency libxul has for FF3 a security problem?
>
>2) is the dependency on FF3 a bug in libxul? If it is a bug, who
>    should receive a report: gecko@ or the Mozilla project?
>
>FYI: I'm pretty sure it was portsclean -D (and not me) that deleted
>FF3...yet libxul tried to pull it in during the portupgrade.

As far as i know, the libxul port is inside ff3. Installing libxul 
doesn't install ff3, only libxul. Perhaps it's an old libxul and the 
newr one is inside ff7, so libxul port should point there, don't know that.

>Best regards,
>
>Joe
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