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Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash & Debian



On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 03:05:07PM CEST, Jordan Metzmeier <titan8990@gmail.com> said:
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> On 06/10/2010 09:01 AM, Erwan David wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:46:11PM CEST, John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> said:
> >> Alexander Batischev writes:
> >>> Iceweasel (Debian clone of Firefox)...
> >>
> >> Iceweasel is not merely a clone of Firefox.  It _is_ Firefox.  It's
> >> called Iceweasel in Debian because Mozilla doesn't want Debian to use
> >> the trademarked Firefox name.
> >>
> > 
> > I noticed some difference on iceowl...
> > Sunbird does not need gnome...
> > 
> > iceowl on the contrary...
> > 
> > Depends: libasound2 (>> 1.0.18), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.29.3), libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.15.0), libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.27.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libgnome2-0 (>= 2.17.3), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 1:2.17.90), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), libjpeg62, libnspr4-0d (>= 1.8.0.10), libnss3-1d (>= 3.12.3), liborbit2 (>= 1:2.14.10), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpopt0 (>= 1.15), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.6.23.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libx11-6 (>= 0), libxrender1, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), calendar-timezones (= 1.0~b1+dfsg-4)
> > 
> > This makes me fear for next versions of iceweal and icedove...
> > 
> > 
> 
> Sunbird from upstream likely comes in statically-linked binaries. This
> means the required libs would be included in the .tar.gz they distribute.
> 
> I am sure someone else can explain static linking much better than I
> can, as I only have a basic understanding.
> 

I rather of a lazy compilation on a gnome enabled machine thus
integrating gnome dependencies...

Note that upstream asks for gtk and fontconfig, so why only
semi-static ?

-- 
Erwan


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