From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 26 14:46:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA0B6106568F for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:46:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64A68FC2B for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:46:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21417 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2009 14:46:03 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Aug 2009 14:46:03 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 164945082F; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:46:02 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090826063036.1f8bd20f@scorpio.seibercom.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:46:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090826063036.1f8bd20f@scorpio.seibercom.net> (Jerry's message of "Wed\, 26 Aug 2009 06\:30\:36 -0400") Message-ID: <447hwqhbva.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Removing firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1 from system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:46:03 -0000 Jerry writes: > I recently installed openoffice.org-3.1.0_2 on my system. For some > reason it brought in firefox-2 also. I all ready had Firefox-3.5 > installed. I do not want or need two different installations of Firefox > on my system. > > Firefox-2 appears to be required by these programs. > > /var/db/pkg $ pkg_info -R firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1 > Information for firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1: > > Required by: > gegl-0.0.22_6 > gimp-2.6.6,2 > gimp-app-2.6.6_3,1 > gimp-gutenprint-5.1.7_2 > gimp-help-2.4.2_1 > librsvg2-2.26.0_1 > > I am not sure why these programs require Firefox-2 since Firefox-3.5 > was installed prior to their installation. > > Is there any way I can safely remove Firefox-2 and force the use of > Firefox-3.5 instead without breaking anything? It's not using the firefox2 executable, but for gecko support. You will need to rebuild each port from which you want to remove the dependency. Some time soon, the Makefile support will change to using www/libxul instead of its current system. If you want to make an equivalent change before then, you can put WITH_GECKO=libxul in your make.conf and rebuild the dependent ports. See bsd.gecko.mk for more information, or just keep an eye on it to see when the changes come into the tree. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/