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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Aug 10, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Jason Flatt wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 10 August 2005 09:29 pm, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > > Though on further thought, it's probably more inline with the SMGL
> > > > philosophy to leave the default alone and let people modify their own
> > > > environments if they want this behaviour.  I know I hate it when other
> > > > distros change the defaults to be "helpful".  You could maybe put it in a
> > > > new firefox-window script or something instead.
> > >
> > > What about YetAnotherConfigureOption to include it or not?
> >
> > Our firefox script is already non-standard in that I wrote it to fix
> > some LD_LIBRARY_PATH fun that firefox has.
>
> Non-standard how?  Every platform that runs firefox has to deal with the
> mozilla library issue, and they all pretty much deal with it that way.

That's the reason used for why you didn't want the script modified as
David Brown suggested...make up your mind (unless I'm misreading)
please. You don't want a distro (even if they 'all' do it to make it
easy) modifying what the package authors intended without good reason.

- -sandalle

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