on 2002/05/20 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: > On Tue, 21 May 2002, mathias meyer wrote: > >> i recently wanted to try galeon and found this in the info file >> (sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/web/galeon-1.2.1-1.info) >> >> Depends: gnome-libs, libglade, gnome-vfs (>= 1.0.3-4) | >> gnome-vfs-ssl (>= 1.0.3-4), gconf, oaf, libxml, gnome-core, mozilla (>= >> 0.9.9), gdk-pixbuf >> >> now i'm wondering: why does one webbrowser depend on some other browser? > > Galeon could almost be considered a browser "skin": it takes Mozilla's > HTML rendering engine -- Gecko -- and puts a lightweight interface in > front of it.
> Basically, Galeon needs Mozilla for the same reason that Gnome requires an > X11 server: the former is just a nice interface offered for the latter. Is that a good analogy? Gnome does require X11. As you point out, Galeon does not need Mozilla. It needs the rendering engine, Gecko, also part of the Mozilla project. If one was to leave such a dependency, would it not make more sense for Mozilla to depend on Galeon as it is the much smaller of the two ;-) But possibly does that come to a Crypto issue? Best regards, Lloyd _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
