reopen 316653 retitile 316653 [UPSTREAM]yelp should not depend on mozilla-browser tag 316653 wontfix thanks
On 7/2/05, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 02, 2005, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > > Package: yelp > > Version: 2.6.5-1 > > (Please note you reported this bug against the version in testing, not > in unstable.) I said I wanted to upgrade from etch to sid, doh! :-) I tried to find a solution to avoid installing the mozilla-browser as an indirect dependency of gnome-core. What I feel strange about is why yelp needs one of a sudden a dependency on a library *outside* of gnome. What were they thinking? Is it a good idea to split mozilla-browser? I think yes, and have a special package for that. I hate mozilla-browser, and having it on my computer just for the sake of having yelp (another app that I don't use) is a plain PITA. I don't have enough space on my laptop's / partition to afford to install applications which I don't need. > > > I was surprised to see that yelp depends on mozilla-browser. Shouldn't > > that be just www-browser, or 'mozilla-browser | mozilla-firefox' ? > > This is no mistake: > % ldd =yelp | grep moz > libgtkembedmoz.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libgtkembedmoz.so > (0xb781e000) > libxpcom.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so (0xb7766000) > % dlocate /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so > mozilla-browser: /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so > % dlocate /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so > mozilla-browser: /usr/lib/mozilla/libxpcom.so > > (Which means yelp needs files from the mozilla-browser package to run.) > > This is because Yelp now uses this backend to display HTML, I'm sorry > this forces installation of an unwanted browser, and I wish these > libraries would be split out too. Have you contacted the mozilla-browser maintainers? Or I should do it? > I'm closing your bug. I think the best way to tag this is wontfix (this will also stop others to submit bugs of the same type) and add [UPSTREAM] to the subject, to indicate the problem is in upstream. This is the explanation for the reopening. -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
