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

[Michael A. Peters]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:35, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
> 
> > If I am setting up a workstation for a secretary and I don't want to 
> > allow Internet browsing, why should I install Mozilla. If the address
> > book code is required for OOo, then put the code in a separate 
> > package. 
> 
> This suggestion...needs to be taken upstream to mozilla development.
> Can the Fedora packagers split off libraries into separate
> packages...yes....but that fractures the package sets compared to other
> distributions. The right solution is to take this up with mozilla
> development upstream...and encourage them to make an effort to split the
> libraries from the actual application. So its easier for ALL the
> distributions to repackage the libs separately from the app.
> 
> -jef 

It also could be solved within OO.o by static linking that library.

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