Mozilla

Why is Mozilla a part of the QNX Momentics NC for Neutrino package? It doesn’t seem to belong there and makes it hard to uninstall.

Your absolutly right - it should not be bundeled with the Momentics package.

The momentics bundle contains items that are useful for developement (GCC, GDB, etc). Mozilla is not directly useful for developement.

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And whats the sense of the bundles anyway!

Many users may for whatever reason may wish to have a certain portion of the bundle removed.

The problem? This is currently not reasonably possible - that is you cannot remove one compoent of the bundle without removing the entire bundle - which can be quite annoying.

My suggestion to QSS[L]: Make it so a developer can “break” the bundle in qnxinstall by allowing them to remove/disable a compoent of a bundle or else remove the concept of bundles as a whole. Being forced to have an outdated copy of anything on a system can irritate the senses of a developer, and an irriated developer is not a happy developer.

Mozilla is an excellent example of why a bundle should be breakable. It’s quite evident QSS[L] is not providing the matance that Mozilla requires (The current release is 1.1 beta - QSS[L]'s current release is 0.9.8). 3rd parties have provided updated versions which work along side the existing installation - but we both know thats not the way it should work.

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(Please don’t misconstrude that last sentence :confused: )

TheAlien: Would it be possible to remove the QSSL mozilla by removing its directory in /pkgs and then removing all mention of it from the file that has a list of packages installed (I forget what that file is called right now)? Or would the package manager mess up or something else bad happen?

You could do that - but dealing with the package filesystem by hand is not somthing anyone should be forced to do - to do it properly you would not just end up deleting a few files and directories - you’d also end up editing various manafests.

It’s just not a pretty thing to do, and it should not be an acceptable option.

Yes, QNX should definetly do away with bundling software like this! It makes managing packages a nightmare…

How does one uninstall Mozilla 0.98
I’ve tried installing 1.4 for 6.2.1 but .98 won’t go away :frowning:

Install 1.3 first, then install 1.4.

Thanks, that did the trick.

As an aside, 1.4 is totally cool.