Too many dependencies? was: Is Linux always so frustating?

[William Hooper]

M. Fioretti said:
> Premise: I am still running RH9, will directly switch to Fedora Core 2
> when it is released. In the meantime, I subscribed to this list to get
> familiar with FC. I am writing this both to point out a potential
> issue with FC and to know more about it. Now, to the point:
>
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 18:16:11 PM +0200, pinco (pinco at kiesperanto.org)
> wrote:
>
>> For some application, as I understood, I should have different
>> programs because they depend on others: OpenOffice use Mozilla, so
>> even if I don't like this browser I must have its libraries, if I
>> decide to use Gnome I must have even the KDE libraries, because some
>> programs require them, and so on.
>
> I have already seen, in the original threads, a couple of people
> answering more or less "so what?" to Nino's concern above.
>
> Does OOo *really* require Mozilla to install on FC?

Yes.

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>
> In general, careless packaging
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Functions of OOo require Mozilla libraries (something about the address
book I think, but I could be wrong).  How is that "careless packaging"?

-- 
William Hooper