[desktop-discuss] Re: [content-discuss] Re: Article idea "Getting Small"?

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

Eric Boutilier wrote:
> What hit me is that in order to be viable these days, any
> desktop implementation needs Firefox, and that Firefox
> is based on GNOME (GTK+) libraries, Glib, Pango, ATK,
> et al. So what does this have to do with this document?
> Well, in addition to the set of packages needed to get
> X running[1], all the packages that Firefox needs (lots of
> them) are also required. So here's a copy of that set. In
> specific, this set is intended to comprise the additional
> packages that Firefox depends on, but not to include
> any superfluous packages:
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/eric_boutilier/neededbyFirefox.txt

Hrm, I'm not so sure about this list - I'd be surprised if there was any 
dependency on SUNWgnome-panel or SUNWgnome-components. Having 
dependencies on SUNWGlib, SUNWGtku and SUNWGtkr also seems wrong since 
you should be able to build Firefox without needing those older libraries.


Glynn