Re: updated mozsupport package

On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 13:31:36 UTC, Andreas Kohl <[email protected]> wrote:

> Steve Wendt schrieb:
> > I have updated the mozsupport package, hopefully including all of the
> > DLLs needed for Firefox (only tested with Dave's current SeaMonkey
> > build, which needs fewer).
> >
> > http://os2news.warpstock.org/Warpzilla.html
> > http://os2news.warpstock.org/mozsupport-2016-02-27.zip
> >
> > Feedback welcome.  :)
> 
> Why not simply add also the required libc and gcc stuff?
> gcc1.dll
> gcc473.dll
> libc065.dll
> libc066.dll
> stdcpp6.dll
> Or better provide a separate file without WarpIn requirement.
> 
> 
> --
> Andreas

None of that requires WarpIn, but your list is far from complete. 
Please don't distribute packages that are not complete. You need GCC1 
plus ALL of the forwarders, and LIBC066 plus ALL of the forwarders. 
This stuff is hard enough to sort out, without supplying incomplete 
packages, which can leave a user with down level versions, when they 
think they have everything that they need. It may not affect the 
Mozilla stuff (in this case), but other things are going to have 
problems, eventually.

I will point out, that it took me about 2 minutes (plus download time)
to get all of this right, using the Arca Noae Package Manager to run 
YUM. It is definitely a terrible way to do things, but it is far 
better than spending days trying to figure it out for yourself. I know
that my time can be used for better things.

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