Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/28/06 14:13 CST:

> If a package is looking for them, then it should just fail.  The
> instructions should use the system ns* libraries and if they are looking
> in the wrong place, the packages, not seamonkey, should be fixed.

I disagree. I know I am sounding like a broken record here as this is
at a minimum the third time I've typed this out, but :-)

We cannot simply delete these files. There are packages that look for
them. And those packages are doing the right thing, because they think
that NSS/NSPR is being provided by Moz products. They have to assume
that NSS/NSPR is being provided by a Moz product because the Moz
products *will not build without being patched* if you use system
installed NSS/NSPR.

We cannot expect a package maintainer to assume that a Moz product
has been patched. They *must* assume that the Moz product is
installed IAW Moz's recommendations, which right now does not
include using system-installed NSS/NSPR. And, it then should be
assumed that the mozproduct-ns*.pc file is valid.

-- 
Randy

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