Bug#370098: tasksel: Desktop Environment installs both firefox and galeon

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Mon Jun 5 21:29:37 UTC 2006


Le dimanche 04 juin 2006 à 16:01 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > No. Both epiphany and galeon depend on libxul, not firefox. Something
> > else must have brought firefox.
> 
> The desktop task pulls in firefox.
> 
> > As galeon is more compliant with the GNOME HIG than firefox, it makes
> > sense to give it a higher priority than firefox. The problem here is
> > that firefox shouldn't have been installed.
> 
> Yes it should; it's the browser a great many users expect to have
> installed with their desktop.

It doesn't make sense to install it as part of the GNOME desktop. It
doesn't integrate correctly with the desktop, and doesn't have any key
features epiphany doesn't have. In the end, it's just confusing to have
two browsers installed, just because one of them is "well-known".
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