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. It ought to be possible to package a binary that includes that Mozilla components with Galeon, but if you're building from source or your package management system is oriented that way, it's easier to not do things that way (even if, from the user point of view, bundling them as one might be easier). > i think one reason of installing galeon might be trying to avoid having > to install mozilla. on top galeon seems to build correctly without > mozilla (haven't tried it, it's in the info file as well) Dunno, maybe. It needs Gecko, or perhaps a workalike for it, in order to display web content. Maybe you get a lightweight renderer without it, but I wouldn't expect it to work very well that way. > so can anyone tell me, please, why running galeon requires mozilla? 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. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ Help bring Connector to OSX: PetitionOnline.com/osximian "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc _______________________________________________________________ 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-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
