On Monday 25 February 2002 00:37, Paolo Pedroni wrote: > Il 02:51, sabato 23 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: >> Perhaps it could be included in contribs for the sake of nostalgia? It >> is a classic peice of software after all.
> Besides the nostalgia factor, it is also required by some packages (namely > AfterStep-1.8.10-1mdk). And netscape-plugins is required by > kdebase3-nsplugins-3.0-0.beta2.1mdk. That can be dealt with by pointing AS at Mozilla and (!) making nsplugins standalone. RPM really needs a ``recommended'' information tag for s/w that goes with a package but isn't required. > I'd really like it if Netscape4 went back in cooker: it's the only browser > that you can fall back if the newer ones (Konqueror, Mozilla, Galeon) don't > work (and everyone knows that sometimes they just don't work). Very rarely do I find something that breaks both Konq and Moz but not NS4. And generally (speaking for myself only) it's not the kind of site I'd visit if I had a choice anyway (eyeball deep in graphics and Java, or totally IE-specific). > The only reason I can see for segregating it in the commercial CDs is to > have any Mandrake user who wants a browser that 'just works' to but the > commercial CDs. I'm not going to do that. And to make the main distro more completely GPL. Cheers; Leon
