Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: > Am Dienstag 10 August 2010 schrieb Paweł Hajdan, Jr.: >> Gentoo uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/nsbrowser/plugins for browser plugins. >> However, Debian uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/mozilla/plugins, and that's what >> many software projects (including Chromi

Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-11 Thread Hanno Böck
Am Dienstag 10 August 2010 schrieb Paweł Hajdan, Jr.: > Gentoo uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/nsbrowser/plugins for browser plugins. > However, Debian uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/mozilla/plugins, and that's what > many software projects (including Chromium) target. > > Why are we using nsbrowser/plugins inst

Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-11 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:12:39 -0700 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > Could you give an example? I'm just curious. Different distros use > different paths, so that could lead to problems. Or are they trying to > recognize the running distro? www-plugins/adobe-flash: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cg

Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-11 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 8/10/10 9:51 PM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > Hardcoding paths is a bad design™. Well, yeah, it could be done better. Hmm, I will think more about it. On 8/10/10 9:54 PM, Jory A. Pratt wrote: > Why can chromium not do like firefox and others and make the plugins > dir scalable via a wrapper scri

Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-11 Thread Luca Barbato
On 08/10/2010 11:29 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > Gentoo uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/nsbrowser/plugins for browser plugins. > However, Debian uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/mozilla/plugins, and that's what > many software projects (including Chromium) target. And that is bad. > Why are we using nsbrowser

Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-10 Thread Jory A. Pratt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/10/2010 11:40 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:50 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: >> By the way, I just wonder... why not _symlink_ "mozilla/plugins" to >> "nsbrowser/plugins"? That would solve the technical problem, while >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-10 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Wednesday 11 of August 2010 05:50:47 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > On 8/10/10 4:28 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > >> Gentoo uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/nsbrowser/plugins for browser plugins. > >> However, Debian uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/mozilla/plugins, and that's > >> what many software projects (includin

Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:50 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > By the way, I just wonder... why not _symlink_ "mozilla/plugins" to > "nsbrowser/plugins"? That would solve the technical problem, while > keeping a good, more general name. some plugins like to change their behavior based on the path

Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-10 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 8/10/10 4:28 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: >> Gentoo uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/nsbrowser/plugins for browser plugins. >> However, Debian uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/mozilla/plugins, and that's >> what many software projects (including Chromium) target. > > Could you name them? Opera looks into tons of di

Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-10 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:29:20 -0700 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > Gentoo uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/nsbrowser/plugins for browser plugins. > However, Debian uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/mozilla/plugins, and that's > what many software projects (including Chromium) target. Could you name them? Opera looks

Re: [gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:29:20 -0700 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: >> Why are we using nsbrowser/plugins instead of mozilla/plugins, and how >> relalistic would it be to switch to mozilla/plugins? > > --- nsplugins.eclass    1 May 2009 23:03:00 -000

[gentoo-dev] nsbrowser plugins

2010-08-10 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
Gentoo uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/nsbrowser/plugins for browser plugins. However, Debian uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/mozilla/plugins, and that's what many software projects (including Chromium) target. Why are we using nsbrowser/plugins instead of mozilla/plugins, and how relalistic would it be to switch