On 05/13/2012 09:55 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > 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
Half a gigabyte? 29M /usr/lib/xulrunner 3.6M /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel 24M /usr/include/xulrunner 6.8M /usr/share/idl/xulrunner 6.8M /usr/lib/firefox About 70 MB when using Firefox with system Xulrunner. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
