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Bug 41757 - providing virtual/mozilla
Summary: providing virtual/mozilla
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2004-02-16 01:55 UTC by Michael Sliwak
Modified: 2004-02-18 21:53 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Sliwak 2004-02-16 01:55:26 UTC
Is it possible to provide a virtual/mozilla entry in /var/cache/edb/virtuals, so that either mozilla or MozillaFirebird have to be installed. People not using mozilla need it, because some programms rely on the mozilla libs. But these libs  are also provided by MozillaFirebird (or am i wrong?). So why not creating a virtual/mozilla entry and have either mozilla or firebird installed.

greetz
michael
Comment 1 Brad Laue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-02-18 21:53:15 UTC
MozillaFirebird doesn't provide everything other apps need to build against unfortunately.

A future development from mozilla.org will be the GRE, Gecko Runtime Environment. This will enable multiple Mozilla based applications to link to a single gecko engine and set of supporting libraries, so that the full browser doesn't need to be installed if it hasn't been requested by the user.