> I was questioning your requirements. The mention of firefox and > lightweight seemed to be a contradiction to me.
Not knowing anything about what sites I have to visit, what they support, what I have to do there, rather than answer my question about toolkits, you decided something else would work better for me than firefox? What is this fascination with requiring firefox? I don't get it. In the first place, even if it were a contradiction, just because I have to have firefox has no relevance for making the rest of the system light and efficient. If one piece of the system doesn't meet some arbitrary standard, then the whole thing is ruined and nothing should be done to make any of it right? Nonsense. What ever happened to "Your system, your rules"? "We don't like your rules," is it? So is it now we have to answer to some other rules to get a straightforward answer to a question about the tradeoffs for managing toolkits in some efficient for the time being? From what I've seen, even GTK3 is a headache, breaking things from release to release. --- > Here is a quick list of what I build after Xorg to support firefox > (ignoring fonts - DejaVu is probably sufficient for Paul) - items with > square brackets are other toolkits or e.g. for TeX. ... > glib2 ... > gtk2 ... > [ gtk3 I see Ken has both. I'd be interested if he has experienced the breakage & incompatibility problems. --- > There is a question if firefox actually needs gstreamer I ditched > gstreamer completely from my systems as soon as firefox decided to use > ffmpeg by default so I can confirm that it doesn't need it. I just glanced at FFmpeg yesterday, but was put off by all its dependencies. Is it more efficient, lightweight, than Gstreamer, all things considered? -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
