Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

[Joey Hess]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 23 juin 2008 à 11:50 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
> > > If you use gnome, it will always be pulled by epiphany-extensions
> > > anyway.
> > 
> > It seemed to me that epiphany-extensions depends on epiphany-gecko, but
> > that epiphany-browser was not pulled in by that.
> 
> The epiphany-browser package only contains the /usr/bin/epiphany wrapper
> script, which is only here for backwards compatibility, so no need for
> it on new installations.

Won't the epiphany maintainers want people to still have epiphany
installed to handle the transition to epiphany-webkit when it becomes
default?

> > > Upstream made the choice for us. Now that swfdec-gnome is part of the
> > > official GNOME release (see gnome-desktop-environment), swfdec-mozilla
> > > is only here to bring the browser on par with the desktop’s abilities.
> > 
> > There's a big difference between choosing to use swfdec to display flash
> > files from Desktop, and using it to display flash files from the whole
> > web. Has the GNOME project really decided to use swfdec in browsers by
> > default? All I was aware of was them having decided to use swfdec-gnome
> > so far.
> 
> As GNOME is moving away from Gecko, they are not promoting technologies
> tied to it, but given that GNOME developers are working on swfdec, I
> think it is only a matter of time until epiphany integrates swfdec one
> way or another.

It's clearly only a matter of time until either swfdec or gnash is
included in desktops by default. Question is, is it time *yet*. If we
had included these by default a year ago, we would have clearly done it
too early.

-- 
see shy jo
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