On Sun, 13 May 2012 20:13:02 +0100 DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually, I've been thinking a bit more on this one. As a compromise, we > could probably still get rid of the XUL Runner page and use only the > Firefox page to first build XUL Runner, and then Firefox in a separate > build directory from only the Firefox source tarball. This is the way > Firefox should actually be built anyway for our purposes. Without the > dev libs, a user cannot build browser extensions from source (still > ignoring the fact that the build tree needs to kept around). The FF > portion of the build should take < 0.1 SBU. The reason it is not done > that way by default is that the Mozilla devs choose not to cater to > developers, but rather end users...understandable give the huge Windows > target, but a minor PITA for us and a source of mild disagreement. > Anybody think this is a bad compromise? Yes, I think it's stupid to make people install half a gigabyte of files just to get a browser. Firefox works fine with 31 megabytes of files. Only people who want to make the java plugin will benefit from the extra half a gigabyte. It is years since I've installed java. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
