Randy McMurchy wrote: > 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.
I'm sorry to go over old issues. I'm not sure any packages look for 'seamonkey*' (vice mozilla), but I understand your point of view. Lets just leave it as is. I still think the other packages need to be fixed, but it is not really that important. Another point is that the packages that *do* need nss/nspr are redundant with SeaMonkey. Evolution, Thunderbird, and Firefox all duplicate functionality in SeaMonkey. In any case, I'm dropping the issue for now, but reserve the right to bring it up in the future as need arises. :) -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
