Thunderbird and Firebird RPMS ?

Jim Cornette redhat-jc at insight.rr.com
Sun Oct 12 00:24:40 UTC 2003


Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> 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
> 


Also, when Thunderbird is up. You cannot launch Mozilla seperately. It 
interferes with the full version of Mozilla. In my case anyway.

Jim

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