Bug#316653: yelp should not depend on mozilla-browser

[Eddy Petrisor]

reopen 316653
retitile 316653 [UPSTREAM]yelp should not depend on mozilla-browser
tag 316653 wontfix
thanks

On 7/2/05, Lo=EFc Minier <lool@dooz.org> wrote:
>         Hi,
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> On Sat, Jul 02, 2005, Eddy Petrisor wrote:
> > Package: yelp
> > Version: 2.6.5-1
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>  (Please note you reported this bug against the version in testing, not
>  in unstable.)

I said I wanted to upgrade from etch to sid, doh! :-) I tried to find
a solution to avoid installing the mozilla-browser as an indirect
dependency of gnome-core.
What I feel strange about is why yelp needs one of a sudden a
dependency on a library *outside* of gnome. What were they thinking?

Is it a good idea to split mozilla-browser? I think yes, and have a
special package for that.
I hate mozilla-browser, and having it on my computer just for the sake
of having yelp (another app that I don't use) is a plain PITA. I don't
have enough space on my laptop's / partition to afford to install
applications which I don't need.

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> > I was surprised to see that yelp depends on mozilla-browser. Shouldn't
> > that be just www-browser, or 'mozilla-browser | mozilla-firefox' ?
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>  This is no mistake:
>     % ldd =3Dyelp | grep moz
>             libgtkembedmoz.so =3D> /usr/lib/mozilla/libgtkembedmoz.so
>             (0xb781e000)
>             libxpcom.so =3D> /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so (0xb7766000)
>     % dlocate /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so
>     mozilla-browser: /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so
>     % dlocate /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so
>     mozilla-browser: /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so
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>  (Which means yelp needs files from the mozilla-browser package to run.)
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>  This is because Yelp now uses this backend to display HTML, I'm sorry
>  this forces installation of an unwanted browser, and I wish these
>  libraries would be split out too.

Have you contacted the mozilla-browser maintainers? Or I should do it?

>  I'm closing your bug.

I think the best way to tag this is wontfix (this will also stop
others to submit bugs of the same type) and add [UPSTREAM] to the
subject, to indicate the problem is in upstream.
This is the explanation for the reopening.

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Regards,
EddyP
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