On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:15:25AM -0400, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
> Daniel Macks wrote:
> >Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4-transitional/unstable/crypto/finkinfo
> >
> >Added Files:
> >     yelp.info yelp.patch 
> >Log Message:
> >GNOME help viewer is finally here!
> >
> >Needs to link against mozilla (or could be switched to firefox) so
> >must be in crypto. So we'll not make is a dependency of other gnome
> >packages, lest the whole world become crypto also.
> 
> Had a couple of thoughts:
> 
> 1)  Maybe it would be better to link against firefox, since that's 
> actually maintained.

Should be fine (I don't have ffox compiled yet so I can't test it).
Would be easy enough to have variants and use update-alternatives too
if people really want the choice (it's a compile-time option, not a
run-time preference).

> 2)  I wonder if mozilla / firefox can be made to use the system's 
> openssl so that we don't have to worry about yelp becoming crypto and 
> thereby include it as part of GNOME rather than putting a note in the 
> docs that nobody will read.

Mozilla appears to be intrinsically cryto...there are no deps for
openssl nor does otool appear to have any links to it.

dan

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