Re: remove the full mozilla dependency from galeon2?

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 18:44, Petter Sundlöf wrote:
> > Then Phoenix came along with the cool idea of integrating mozilla into
> > their package - although their package is still to bulky.
> 
> But Phoenix is still XUL, it's basically a stripped down Mozilla.
> 
> > 1. Work out which mozilla files are used by galeon and sepporate them
> > into a libmozilla package.
> 
> I don't think this is reasonable. All distributions will include Mozilla
> as a separate package, even if Galeon is made the default browser {of
> GNOME}. Mozilla as a whole will most certainly be present in most
> distributions.

well I guess what i was thinking of giving both packages as an option -
so that ppl/distros can just use mozilla or if they want to can use an
integrated package. This would be useful for ppl upgrading as they will
have to upgrade mozilla anyway. 

> >                 OR
> > 2. Compile galeon so that it is statically linked against all mozilla
> > code.
> 
> Would we want such a huge Galeon binary?

well the libs need to be loaded anyway so would it not be the same
difference?

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