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FS#3434 - Should put mozilla plugins under /opt/mozilla

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by 甘露(Lu Gan) (ganlu) - Sunday, 06 November 2005, 13:44 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Saturday, 11 February 2006, 13:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

In our practical standard, /opt should be a place to put all-in-one big applcation, that's great. However, why we have to make a seperate mozilla-plugins there instead of simply under mozilla folder?
To change that (to comply with our practical standard), following packages chould change the path accordingly:
mozilla-firefox
mozilla-common
j2re
totem
flashplugin
Though it's very simple:
"export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/opt/mozilla/plugins" --mozilla-common's mozilla-plugin.sh
adding "install -dD -m755 $startdir/pkg/opt/mozilla/plugins" --mozilla-firefox
something like this.

Please consider it. Thanks.

Regards,
ganlu

This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 11 February 2006, 23:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  plugins should be in /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins now. Report bugs for plugins that aren't.
Comment by Alexander Baldeck (kth5) - Tuesday, 08 November 2005, 19:54 GMT
it might happen that you want to install j2re, mplayer or flash but not mozilla or firefox? then putting the plugins in /opt/mozilla would be quite misleading. on top of that it would require packages that provide plugins to depend on mozilla-common too, if i am right.

in my case, the plugins are only used by konqueror which can make use of mozilla-plugins. should it really scan the whole mozilla installation for plugins instead of just one simple path?
Comment by 甘露(Lu Gan) (ganlu) - Thursday, 10 November 2005, 15:16 GMT
No, mozilla firefox is using such plugins too.

I don't think j2re or alikes would depend on mozilla-common if we just change the path, look at the j2re PKGBUILD, it simply make a folder and copy/link a few files into it, so such plugins don't care about mozilla (firefox) at all. On the user side there is no functional diffirence but a clearer /opt. Reference to firefox official installer.

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