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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le lundi 04 juillet 2005 =E0 15:00 +0300, Eddy Petrisor a =E9crit :
> 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?

They needed a HTML rendering engine. Gecko isn't really "outside" of
GNOME, it is already a dependency for epiphany-browser. The good
question is why they didn't use gtkhtml.

> Is it a good idea to split mozilla-browser? I think yes, and have a
> special package for that.

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

If you want to convince the mozilla maintainer to do that, I wish you
good luck.
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