I unmasked Firefox in package.keywords:
# Unmask FF3, and deps...
www-client/mozilla-firefox
dev-libs/nspr
dev-libs/nss
net-libs/xulrunnerWhen I tried to emerge it…
- [emerge world] did not pull it in
- [emerge mozilla-firefox] did – weird
- another [emerge world] REVERTED to Firefox 2!
Apparently there’s some dependency that causes FF2 to reinstall over FF3. So… let’s block FF2 from reinstalling by adding this to package.mask:
<=www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.16Now we can run [emerge world] to see the problem dependency:
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=www-client/mozilla-firefox-2*" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.16 (masked by: package.mask)
- www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.11 (masked by: package.mask)
(dependency required by "www-client/epiphany-2.20.3" [installed])Epiphany is a browser based on FF2, ugg. You can’t mask epiphany, it is a dependency of gnome. So… unmasked FF3 and gnome are incompatible, at the moment. For now, I guess I have to wait it out… after all, the official policy (as stated here):
The overall Gentoo policy is very clear on the topic. Mixing unstable and stable is _your_ problem, not ours. We are already trying our best to maintain a stable Gnome (2.20), an unstable one (2.22) and an experimental one (2.23/24).
If you mix and match stable and unstable, you’re own your own.
Fair enough.
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