Comment 26 for bug 137993

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:45 PM, John Vivirito <email address hidden> wrote:
> The more i think about this the more i am against adding browsers to the
> deps, only because if they are using non-gecko browser they will have to
> install one.(yes i know thats the point as mozilla-mplyer wont work on
> konq, ect...) since most people using Ubuntu or Xubuntu has a gecko
> browser installed already this sould not be a dep. Please move them to
> recommends as this will cause too much cruft to be installed if they are
> using a minimal system without Ubuntu-desktop but with Gnome-* package.

I think it's reasonable to add all supported browsers as
mozilla-mplayer dependency. If the user doesn't have supported browser
installed, what's the point of mozilla-mplayer on his system?

> When you say brower-package you mean a empty package that depends on a
> browser? (empty == meta package) just sued to get deps.

I'm thinking on any browser that can make use of mozilla-mplayer. But,
as I said before, that situation is very rare. There are not that many
browsers out there, which would be added, so the previous example is
not that important.

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Best regards,
Saša Bodiroža