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James Miller wrote:
> 
> Some information on skipstone's dependencies 
>
> [depends] libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1) GNU C Library: Shared libraries

BL2 has libc6 2.1.3 so this could be a problem.  We will 
probably need to recompile it (or perhaps find an earlier 
version of the binary).

> [depends] libgcc1 (>= 1:3.2.3-0pre5) GCC support library

I don't know this one.

> [depends] libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) The GLib library of C routines
> [depends] libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4) The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets

Dillo needs those as well.

> [depends] libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.2.3-0pre5) Standard C++ Library v3
> [depends] xlibs (>> 4.1.0) X Window System client libraries

Standard stuff.

> [depends] mozilla-browser (>=2:1.2.1-10) Mozilla Web Browser 

This is the bit that annoys me.  You have to install mozilla
(which is very large) plus all the other stuff.  I would prefer 
a version of Skipstone that included the required mozilla code 
(instead of making us download the whole damn thing).

> [depends] wget retrieves files from the web

The BL2 busybox includes wget

I had mozilla on this machine a while back, but deleted it 
to make room for testing other things.  I wish I had tried 
Skipstone then.  I did try Galeon, which works the same way
(it needs the full mozilla, plus lots of other libraries
--  more than Skipstone).  I didn't much like Galeon.  It
was only slightly faster than mozilla (on this machine) and 
not nearly as nice to use.  Given a choice between Galeon
and mozilla, I'll take mozilla.

Cheers,
Steven