Thunderbird and Firebird RPMS ?

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 17:17:54 UTC 2003


Vidyut Luther wrote:

>I'm curious if there are any plans on including Firebird, or
>Thunderbird, or both, as part of the standard distribution.. I've
>installed Firebird since day 1 of the Severn 2 install and it's great. I
>have the nightly xft2+gtk build, and not one problem whatsoever. of
>course, other people have had different experiences.. but I'm curious of
>those two products would make it to the main distro, as part of a lean
>install, for users like me, who have Evolution for mail, and just want
>Firebird for browsing, I know I don't have to install the mozilla-mail
>package, but it would be cool to not have the cruft associated with it.
>If people want the full mozilla, they can. but for people like me, can i
>just get an rpm ?
>
>  
>
I haven't because it's somewhat difficult to have Firebird installed at 
the same time as the rest of the browser without completely duplicating 
the entire installation.  And that's just a huge waste of space.

--Chris

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