Jürg Billeter wrote these words on 02/08/06 10:28 CST:
> IMO the real bug is that Firefox/Thunderbird upstream uses
> firefox-{nss,nspr}.pc instead of just {nss,nspr}.pc or
> mozilla-{nss,nspr}.pc (whatever they like, it just shouldn't depend on
> the tarball you're downloading).
>
> The packages that look for firefox-{nss,nspr}.pc have to do this to be
> installable with the IMO broken upstream packages.
>
> Correcting the cause instead of correcting the symptom. As I mentioned
> before, it may be more convenient not to remove and this may be the
> right way for BLFS but that doesn't mean that this is the right way for
> upstream or distros.
I agree with everything you say here, Jürg. My only point is that
we need to keep the files on the system until upstream is fixed.
This is all I'm trying to say.
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