Le Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:11:00 +0200, Jean-Marc Desperrier a Ãcrit : > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> Le Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:50:41 -0700, Julien Pierre a Ãcrit : >>>Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >>>>I don't really see the point of a standalone JSS release if it can't be >>>>made to work without a dedicated mozilla CVS tree. >>> >>>It can't be made to work as is, you will have to make changes to the JSS >>>build system for it to work with a Mozilla build tree as opposed to an >>>NSS build tree as it is setup today. >> >> This is infortunate - I may try to do it someday but I really didn't >> factor this kind of problem into the jss packaging. > > The NSS build tree is a *lot* smaller than the Mozilla tree. > > The NSS source package includes everything needed and should be rather > fast to recompile.
This is not about being small or fast. This is about code duplication. If I can use the on-system mozilla nss installation all the nss security updates... are handled by the distribution provider. If I ship my own nss there will be sync problems, duplicated maintenance etc. This is especially true as jpackage targets a lot of different distributions so you can multiply this effort by 12 (a lot more hassle than a common source package people can rebuild easily on their system using their own nss version). Avoiding code duplication is a golden rule of Linux packaging. -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ mozilla-crypto mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-crypto
