On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:04:30 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:51:06AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On 12 November 2011 09:56, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On Jo, 10 nov 11, 08:56:46, Walter Hurry wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by >> >> >> > default? >> >> >> >> >> >> Interesting question. Which distributions do that? >> >> > >> >> > Debian of course :) >> >> >> >> It didn't for me when I installed Squeeze. Maybe I did it >> >> differently. >> >> And it didn't for me when I installed Lenny. I have just installed it >> manually. I have not got task-desktop, so do not need its >> dependencies. >> > I think swf-dec, rather than gnash, was the default on Lenny.
That's correct. Lenny shipped "swfdec-mozilla" package: sm01@stt008:~$ cat /etc/*version 5.0.9 sm01@stt008:~$ dpkg -l | grep swfdec-mozilla ii swfdec-mozilla 0.6.0-5 Mozilla plugin for SWF files (Macromedia Fla Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.11.12.16.27...@gmail.com