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[evraire AT tuwg.com]

Hey everyone,
  I'm currently a user of the Mozilla Firebird browser and am quite enjoying 
it!  Of course, that doesn't stop me from wanting to try out other 
mozilla-based browsers from time-to-time to see if they better reflect my 
needs.  I've played with Mozilla (full-blown), Galeon2 and now Firebird, and 
now I'm interested in Epiphany (the new default Gnome browser).  
Unfortunately, galeon2 and epiphany both depend on mozilla, which conflicts 
with Firebird.

  My question is this: couldn't MOZILLA be made a provides?  Then couldn't 
the mozilla, mozilla-nightly and Firebird spells provide MOZILLA?

  I know Galeon2 is pretty finicky about the version of Mozilla it's compiled 
against, and maybe so is Epiphany.  On the other hand, wasn't the Gecko 
engine designed to be modular for this very purpose?  Ideally I'd like one 
copy of the mozilla libraries on my system and the ability to cast the 
different browsers and try them out, without having to dispel my current 
browser first.  (It was a real bitch when Firebird wouldn't compile and I no 
longer had Mozilla.)

  Anyway, I'm not versed enough in the world of Mozilla to understand what's 
going on, which is why I'm bringing it up for discussion.  What do you think? 
 Can it be made to work?

  Jonathan Evraire
  evraire at tuwg.com


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