Re: gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:19:35 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-17 10:40, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>
>> That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed.
>> There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so
>> that each user on the machine can choose which flash player she wants
>> to use.
>>
>
> The rub is that Debian doesn't officially know that Flash exists.
> Even if it did, too many DDs are morally opposed to closed-source to
> want to Depend on it.
True. But it can depend on something like "flash-player", which is
a meta-package provided by multiple real packages, one of which is
flashplugin-nonfree and one of which is mozilla-plugin-gnash,
or something along those lines.
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