Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:14:58
Message-Id: 200611301103.00358.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] browser advice by Jorge Almeida
1 On Thursday 30 November 2006 10:54, Jorge Almeida wrote:
2 > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 > > It's the -firefox USE flag. Add firefox to USE and it will depend on FF
4 > > instead of seamonkey.
5 >
6 > But why must a browser (Epiphany) depend on another browser (FF,
7 > Seamonkey,...)?
8
9 Because the gnome fellows didn't feel like implementing yet another html
10 renderer and the mozilla fellows didn't split the renderer for firefox or
11 seamonkey out in a separate package for all of them to depend on. This is the
12 same as konqueror depending on khtml which is part of kdelibs...
13
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15 Bo Andresen