Bug#597864: libproxy0 not functional without libmozjs2d

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 23 septembre 2010 à 19:55 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a
écrit : 
> That's not true. libproxy can autodetect the proxy configuration from several
> places, libmozjs being one of them. But if you don't have it, it can still
> autodetect it from GConf (for GNOME), some KDE mechanism (I'm not a KDE guy!),
> your environment, a configuration file... so we don't force anything to be
> installed, because you most likely have installed something so that libproxy can
> autodetect the proxy settings.

libmozjs is necessary to parse JavaScript in proxy.pac files.

It would be really interesting to build again libproxy with
Webkit/JavaScriptCore support. The circular dependency loop makes it
hard, but it avoids this situation.

Cheers,
-- 
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