Thunderbird and Firebird RPMS ?

[Christopher Blizzard]

Jim Cornette wrote:

> 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
>
Yeah, that's the xremote mess.  One of the other mozilla developers and 
I have been talking about how to fix that on and off for the last few weeks.

--Chris

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