On 08/29/2012 07:24 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > When xulrunner first appeared, my memory tells me that it was quite > a bit quicker to build only firefox, instead of building xulrunner > and then linking firefox to it. Of course, the instructions were > quite different in those days. With our current instructions, > building xulrunner first is both quicker and uses less space > (measured on 14.0.1, I haven't built 15.0 yet). > > How would people feel about making xulrunner a recommended dep of > firefox, and removing the instructions for how to build it on its > own - this would make the page rather shorter, and would > significantly reduce the amount of testing / measuring needed at > each upgrade ? > > We could, perhaps, explain that xulrunner is now recommended > because it gives a smaller and wuicker build. > > ĸen >
I am for it. As far as I know, Xulrunner was once required (or recommended) for Firefox. It works great tough, it just needs some minor adjustments. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
