On Sunday, 10 June 2007 at 23:23, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 02:10:10PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: > > @Christopher: I have this scenario (taken out of bug > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242673) -- > > user removes firefox from his system (for example, because he > > wants to install firefox.i386 instead of firefox.x86_64). Yum > > dutifuly notes, that depending package yelp will be also removed. > > Doesn't this remind a bit like the ten year old "Windows needs > Explorer" issues, only now "Fedora needs Firefox"? > > Maybe firefox should be split into libs and non-libs? yelp only needs > libgtkembedmoz.so, libxpcom.so, libxpcom_core.so and gecko-libs, not > firefox itself. AFAIK there's a standalone package of gecko coming sometime in the future. Then firefox and thunderbird and whatnot could be built against it instead of each using its own copy. > Requiring yelp only because an app ships a yelp file is like requiring > evince for shipping pdf docu or firefox for shipping html docu. How true. Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
