[BUG] yelp depends on mozilla?

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Tue May 2 04:51:22 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 11:16 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:20:17 +0100, Leon <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
> > However there is no need for yelp to depend on mozilla. It could
> > depend on firefox, right?
> 
> Firefox is not an application suite like Mozilla. It's just a big
> binary blob. You cannot use the Firefox's rendering engine in your
> application.

Actually, Galeon and most other things these days can compile against
firefox, but Fedora seems to lack a firefox-devel making such at thing
impossible.

Firefox's build system was a nightmare last I checked. I attempted to
figure out how to get a firefox-devel package built a year or two
back... and gave up.
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