On Monday 15 September 2003 23:18, Ric Johnson wrote:
> --- G�tz Waschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Am Montag, 15. September 2003, 05:05:01 Uhr MET, schrieb Ric
> >
> > Johnson:
> > > Are you sure about that? That does not make any sense to me
> > > considering the large number of non-essiential programs that
> > > could have been removed and that mozilla is the default MDK
> >
> > web
> >
> > > browser since they dropped Netscape.
> >
> > AFAIK all packages have a score that marks it importance. Devel
> > packages generally have a lower score than application
> > packages. Most
> > Joe Users don't build mozilla extensions but would be sad about
> > a missing kde screensaver or one game less on the download
> > edition's CDs.
> > --
> >
> :)
>
> Well, if "Joe Users" are paying for it, I suppose that is the way
> it should be. Problem is that "Joe" wants the latest browser
> widget too - maybe the latest Galeon - and expects somebody will
> build it for them. That "somebody" is the guy that expects
> mozilla-devel to be readily available...
> It seems like there should be a better solution than to cut
> mozilla-devel from the download release since it is absolutely
> essential for building any of the gecko based applications.
it's still available from all mirrors, joe user probably won't need the -devel
package, nor know how to fetch packages from the mirrors, but that "somebody"
guy is gonna build it, he probably knows exactly what package he needs and
how to fetch it from the mirrors..
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