Hanspeter Niederstrasser <f...@snaggledworks.com> said:
> The package mozilla is _very_ old, and probably has gazillion of 
> security issues.  It also conflicts with some changes that JFM and 
> myself wish to make to firefox & seamonkey.  Currently, the only package 
> that depends on it is openvrml, which has been superseded by openvrml016.
>
> Philip, can openvrml be removed from Fink so that we can remove mozilla?
>
> And if someone has a reason why mozilla shouldn't be removed, please 
> speak up (an upgrade stub package to either seamonkey or firefox could 
> easily be put in its place if wanted).
>
> BTW, the proposed change is to change the default 3rd party gecko plugin 
> location from the hardcoded /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to 
> %p/lib/mozilla/plugins (%p/lib/%N/plugins will still work as it 
> currently does).  The benefit is that future releases of each browser 
> will be able to find 3rd party plugins (currently mozplugger and librsvg 
> and soon gnash) w/out being limited to a specific browserN.

I suspect librsvg2-seamonkey can just die. Docs suggest gecko long ago
added svg support in-core. I don't know for sure though...that package
is on autopilot, cf. librsvg2 library itself which I handle as part of
gnome.

dan

-- 
Daniel Macks
dma...@netspace.org


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