Bug#314401: Reminds me of Internet Explorer on Windows

Jean Pierre Rupp Jean Pierre Rupp <jpierre@xeno-genesis.com>, 314401@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:55:17 -0400


The mozilla-browser dependency is very annoying since a system for end
users should not have more than one web browser available for the user.

The Ubuntu people have linked against Firefox. I know it's not the main
Mozilla development platform, but it has become the de-facto mozilla
default browser.

There's something else to considere here: Yelp is a package most
interesting to people running GNOME, and gnome-desktop-environment
depends on one of three browsers (epiphany-browser, galeon or
mozilla-firefox-gnome-support), of these three browsers two already
depend on mozilla-browser (epiphany-browser and galeon), so the only
sane option for a user that does not like to have galeon | epiphany +
mozilla-browser is to go for mozilla-firefox. But Yelp then depends on
mozilla-browser, this is kind of a dead-end, there's no way to have a
GNOME system with only one web browser.

A solution that comes to my mind, which may be stupid is to have a
yelp-mozilla and yelp-firefox packages. But of course the intelligent
solution is to crack mozilla-browser's maintainer brain to force him to
voluntary comply with the requirement to separate the libraries and the
browser. Of course it's somehow difficult to force someone to voluntary
do anything.