Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:12:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "J. Altman" <freebsd-announce@chthonic.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I am...unimpressed with this newest upgrade of X Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005181501410.32992@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20100518172115.GA34915@chanas.pair.com> References: <20100517004537.GA91382@chanas.pair.com> <20100517200412.GB52057@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20100517211520.GA99190@chanas.pair.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005171536350.72591@wonkity.com> <20100518172115.GA34915@chanas.pair.com>
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On Tue, 18 May 2010, J. Altman wrote: > > pkg_libchk -rRv returns Don King's Hair: > > firefox-3.5.9,1: located: > /usr/local/lib/firefox3/components/libbrowsercomps.so misses > * > <snip thirty or so lines of output; all centered on /usr/local/lib/firefox3) > * I think these are false positives from the -v option. My system shows the same, anyway. Normally just pkg_libchk without options will find the problems. > Can I assume that, for firefox3, make deinstall followed by make > reinstall is indicated? Normally, yes, but the -v may be overly aggressive for this. > OTOH, xfce (I think) pulled in firefox3 as some sort of dependency. > I'm ambivalent about xfce at this point; so perhaps a simple make > deinstall for firefox will work? Or is it more likely to be a > deinstall of xfce, followed by a forced rebuild of everything else? firefox isn't a dependency for xfce. Rebuilding either wouldn't hurt, but may not help either. > OTOH: pkg_libchk -vRr \*firefox\* looks identical to the output above; > while pkg_libchk -vRr \*seamonkey\* returns no errors. So I'm not sure > if rebuilding or deinstalling Firefox3 or xfce is indicated for the > Seamonkey issue. Thoughts? Switch from seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird? The user interfaces should be very similar, and the wider-circulating applications receive more user testing. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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