http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4923





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-03-09 20:06 -------
I did an install last night (no FlashPlayer involved) and here's what I get:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] drakx]# cd /mnt/disk/usr/lib/netscape/plugins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] plugins]# ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           49 Sep  3 02:43 mozplugger.so ->
../../../../usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mozplugger.so*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] plugins]# cd /mnt/disk/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] plugins]# ls -l
total 24
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        22192 Sep  2 04:01 mozplugger.so*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] plugins]# cd ../../mozilla-1.4/plugins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] plugins]# ls -l
total 20
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           45 Sep  3 03:05 libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
/opt/IBMJava2-14/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_oji.so*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        20240 Sep  2 04:41 libnullplugin.so*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] plugins]#


So, on a vanilla MDK Install (not counting the IBM JDK package), there is no
link from either of the mozilla directories to /usr/lib/netscape/plugins.

I think all Flash is doing is dropping its plugin into /usr/lib/netscape/plugins.  

The problem here isn't whether mozilla-1.4 is correctly migrating symlinks.  The
problem is that even if it creates a symlink for anything it finds in
/usr/lib/netscape/plugins at the time mozilla installs, that won't help if you
come along and install something else which drops a plugin into
/usr/lib/netscape/plugins.

If MDK is going to standardize on Mozilla, then /usr/lib/netscape ought to
become a symlink to /usr/lib/mozilla.

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------- Reminder: -------
assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
status: NEEDINFO
creation_date: 
description: 
I noticed today that the FlashPlayer 6.0 plugin (from Commercial) was not
showing up in the "About Plugins" list.  When I checked, I found that the Flash
RPM installs into /usr/lib/netscape/plugins rather than /usr/lib/mozilla*.

Once I created links from /usr/lib/netscape/plugins to
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins, it worked fine.

I don't think this used to be the case.  When I first built this system (around
the beginning of the month), I remember installing Flash and seeing it work
immediately.

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