On Freitag 18 September 2009, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Hi all. > > Thanks to your support, I think I got a little bit of knowledge of how > emerge works, so I started cleaning my USE flags (I had lot of useless > stuff...). > To perform such cleaning, I started with USE=-* and than added everything I > needed. > > It hasn't been very hard (but quite long :-) )to make things working: > emerge is a really cool tool. > However, I got this strange message: > > * Detected file collision(s): > * > * /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js > * /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js > * > * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... > * > * Press Ctrl-C to Stop > * > * net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.14 > * /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/platform.js > * /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/defaults/autoconfig/prefcalls.js > * > * Package 'www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.14' NOT merged due to file > * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole > * content of the above message. > > If I understood, it seems that xulrunner and firefox package contains the > same files (prefcalls.js and platform.js) in the same directory.
that is correct. > Is it normal? Should I worry? Or I simply have to ignore it? it is not normal and considered a bug. Should you worry - see that is hard to answer - in most cases I have met, it is save to remove the already installed files, because the following app is providing exactly the same stuff. But sometimes that breaks. In your case - I would move the two files into a backup dir in /root or somewhere else far away and save and retry. If everything works as expected (firefox is working, nothing is especially crashy) you can remove them. > > One more question : what is the difference between > www-client/mozilla-firefox and www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin ? -bin is already compiled. It is a binary package just like mozilla is distributing them. Advantage: instant joy. Disadvantage: sometimes slower, sometimes depending on stuff you really don't want to install. Glück Auf Volker
