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whoops

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Registered: 2009-03-19

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[SOLVED] Build Firefox without gnome dependencies?

Hi!

I've been trying for a while now to get rid of gnome and everything "gnomish", but firefox (and every other browser I tried but kazehakage) seems to be very attached to some libraries. I tried to build quite a few variants I found on aur, but they either try to pull gconf, libgnomesomething etc. or fail to build on Arch 64 (like firefox-pgo which btw. makes me think, that XULrunner is actually what's relying on gnome-libraries).

Did anyone get that done?

Last edited by whoops (2009-04-07 02:12:49)

jumzi

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Registered: 2009-02-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Build Firefox without gnome dependencies?

Have no idea about that... But if you DL ABS you can play around with the PKGbuilds if you think they have dependencies they don't need. There's some pages about ABS and PKGbuilds on the wiki aswell

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] Build Firefox without gnome dependencies?

Firefox in Arch has a few dependencies like xulrunner, desktop-file-utils, and of course gtk2. There's nowhere in the dependency chain that pulls in gconf or anything libgnome*.

whoops

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Re: [SOLVED] Build Firefox without gnome dependencies?

That's strange... so why does it install a lot of gnome stuff when building it with makepkg? I think it even calls gconf, as I found the annoying folders & subfolders belonging to it in my home Directory once again...

edit:

packages (9): orbit2-2.14.17-1  gconf-2.26.0-2  gnome-mime-data-2.18.0-3  
            gnome-vfs-2.24.1-2  libbonobo-2.24.1-1  libgnome-2.26.0-2  
            libbonoboui-2.24.1-1  gnome-keyring-2.26.0-1  libgnomeui-2.24.1-1

Last edited by whoops (2009-04-04 15:57:51)

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] Build Firefox without gnome dependencies?

Sorry about that. Those are make depends and not hard dependencies. You can build with the -r switch and those will be removed when you're finished:

makepkg -sr

whoops

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Re: [SOLVED] Build Firefox without gnome dependencies?

Thanks, didn't know how those are called! I did remove them every time I compiled firefox, but I think something of it has been messing with my settings during the process over and over again. Strange Stuff, no idea if it really was gconf, seemed pretty random but there was enough in between that "smelled like gnome"

Anyway - after yesterday's updates, building AUR's firefox-pgo did work fine and it's exactly what I was searching for. Solved!