Bug#342341: eclipse: too many unneeded dependencies

Erwan David erwan at rail.eu.org
Fri Dec 16 07:13:14 UTC 2005


Le Wed 14/12/2005, Billy Biggs disait

> 
>   It needs Mozilla for the embedded browser, as it uses the Gecko
> embedding API.  Erwan is correct that if this is not available, the
> help system will launch in an external web browser.  However, this is
> a degredation of functionality.  We would like all distributions to
> ship an embeddable mozilla, or the xulrunner Mozilla runtime.

Ok, so the mozilla part is a bug in the mozilla packaging which does not
separate the browser from the GtkMozEmbed library.

It lets the gnome problem (which is the most annoying dependency). eclipse
uses gtk, not gnome, its different.

-- 
Erwan




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