On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 10:13PM, mathias meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>now i'm wondering: why does one webbrowser depend on some other browser? Mozilla comes in many parts. It includes a complete user-interface framework, to allow interfaces to be built entirely from scripts. It includes a chat client, a mail client, and a HTML composer. It adds a security framework and a preference engine. And of course, it includes the "Gecko" HTML rendering engine. Many people (including me) think that while the back-end of Mozilla (all the rendering and security code) is very nice, the front-end (the interface and preferences) is quite bloated, slow and not very easy to use. So some folks wrote Galeon. It uses the back-end from Mozilla, since that part is done very well and there's no point in rewriting it. But for the front-end, it uses its own smaller and simpler system, designed specifically to be consistent with and integrate well with GNOME applications. However, since Galeon needs Gecko in order to render HTML, it's impossible to use it without getting Mozilla first. >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) > >BuildDepends: gal19, freetype2, libjpeg, libpng, libtiff, netpbm, >audiofile, db3, esound, glib, gtk+, orbit, readline, giflib, imlib, >bonobo-dev, control-center-dev, gconf-dev, glibwww, gnome-core-dev, >gnome-libs-dev, gnome-print-dev, gtkhtml-dev, oaf-dev, guile-dev, >libwww, popt It seems that you misunderstand what BuildDepends means. Anything that is in the 'Depends' field is automatically and implicitly required for building as well. The only things that need to be put in BuildDepends are extra things that are needed to build Galeon, but not needed to run it. Since Mozilla is a dependency of Galeon, trying to build Galeon without Mozilla will not work. If you want a small browser that takes less time to compile, you might want to check out Dillo. Alternatively, you can just leave your computer on while you sleep, to let it compile Mozilla and Galeon. Or, you might want to take a look at Chimera or Opera or any number of browsers that are available outside of Fink. I hope this answered your question. Dave _______________________________________________________________ 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
