Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 09/11/05 00:35 CST:
> I was checking out the various Mozilla projects and found that they
> also release NSPR and NSS indepndently of Mozilla. Given that Firefox,
> Thunderbird and few other packages link gaim depend on NSS libraries,
> it would probably be useful to build these libraries separately from
> Mozilla* and then make other dependent pacakges link against the
> installed versions.
> 
> Has anyone tried this?

I've fooled around with using the Firefox NSPR stuff to build
Thunderbird, and there was some issue but I can't remember now what
it was. Though I knew they existed, I never tried to build the
stand-alone versions of the NSPR stuff.

Additionally, all the Mozilla stuff would have to show that the
NSPR stuff as an *optional* dependency, and the default commands
for the Mozilla packages would have to build using commands that
don't include the separate NSPR stuff. Then, in the commands
explanation section, there would have to be some mention on how to
use a pre-installed NSPR installation.

Is this worth it?

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