EeePC - Fedora or Ubuntu?

[Kevin Kofler]

Tim wrote:
> Yes, I know that.  But the dependencies are being made at too high a
> level.  It's the same as things depending on the whole of Firefox,
> rather than the gecko engine, because they want some small aspect of it.

That's because Firefox was never designed to be a library, but got used as
such (due to lack of alternatives; there was KHTML, but GTK+ apps couldn't
really use it, WebKitGtk got available only much later). Only recently,
they made xulrunner, which at least somewhat resembles a library (but it
was too late for some apps which already decided to switch to WebKit).

        Kevin Kofler