[BUG] yelp depends on mozilla?

Keith Sharp kms at passback.co.uk
Sun Apr 30 10:33:49 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 09:12 +0100, Leon wrote:
> Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> writes:
> 
> > Leon wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I hope this is the right mail list to raise this question. I'm running
> >> FC5 and both mozilla and firefox are installed. But when I removed
> >> mozilla, yelp is also removed. I think there is a bug here. Any
> >> comments?
> >>
> > As I understand it, Yelp internally makes use of Mozilla's Gecko
> > engine for rendering and whatnot.
> 
> Can it use firefox instead?

There has been a relatively recent discussion on this:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-April/msg01195.html

I didn't follow the entire thread, but I believe the long term plan is
that applications needing an HTML rendering component will switch to use
Xulrunner:

	http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner

When this is scheduled to happen I do not know.

Keith.




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