Efforts to decouple Mozilla dependacies in Debian

Luke-Jr luke at dashjr.org
Tue Feb 21 20:22:35 CST 2006


On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:49, Jason Clinton wrote:
> In the interest of interesting discussion, I saw this interesting tidbit
> today on a Debian developer's personal blog [1]: Debian has managed to
> completely decouple XUL from Mozilla suite. So you can now install
> things which use Gecko's rendering engine without installing the 30 MB
> beast along with it. Good news for Gnome.

So what takes up the 30 MB if not the engine?
Don't see how this is that good of news for Gnome... They're still stuck with 
the inferior Gecko for now. Maybe if someone ports their browsers to use 
Gtk-WebKit...


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