Bug#370098: tasksel: Desktop Environment installs both firefox and galeon

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sun Jun 4 10:31:18 UTC 2006


Le samedi 03 juin 2006 à 13:32 -0700, Eduardo Silva a écrit :
> > Eduardo Silva wrote:
> > > The Desktop Environment task installs galeon and
> > firefox, but I don't 
> > > understand why. Why both?

> > The gnome-desktop-environment depends on
> > epiphany-browser (>= 1.8.5) | galeon (>= 1.3.1 8) |
> > firefox-gnome-support |
> > mozilla-firefox-gnome-support

> I had already written here a big explanation on why
> epiphany should be the only browser, and now I
> remember that it needs firefox, so that's that.

No. Both epiphany and galeon depend on libxul, not firefox. Something
else must have brought firefox.

As galeon is more compliant with the GNOME HIG than firefox, it makes
sense to give it a higher priority than firefox. The problem here is
that firefox shouldn't have been installed.
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