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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Alexander Tsamutali wrote:
> Currently our flash spell does not support installation for xulrunner.
> It is not hard to add this option, but flash depends on
> GRAPHICAL-WEB-BROWSER and thus we need to add this in xulrunner. As i
> understand xulrunner does not really provides some web browser. So my
> question is what is the meaning of GRAPHICAL-WEB-BROWSER?
> 
> astsmtl@beta:~$ gaze provides GRAPHICAL-WEB-BROWSER
> GRAPHICAL-WEB-BROWSER:
> firefox
> firefox-bin
> galeon2
> kdebase
> mozilla
> mozilla-nightly
> netscape4
> opera
> seamonkey
> 
> astsmtl@beta:~$ egrep -r "depends +GRAPHICAL-WEB-BROWSER"
> /var/lib/sorcery/codex/
> /var/lib/sorcery/codex/test/http/swift-flash/DEPENDS:depends
> GRAPHICAL-WEB-BROWSER
> /var/lib/sorcery/codex/test/video/wftv/DEPENDS:depends  
> GRAPHICAL-WEB-BROWSER
> /var/lib/sorcery/codex/test/editors/openoffice/DEPENDS:optional_depends
>  GRAPHICAL-WEB-BROWSER       \
> /var/lib/sorcery/codex/z-rejected/z-http/flash/DEPENDS:depends
> GRAPHICAL-WEB-BROWSER
> 
> Seems like we use this if browser is compatible with netscape plugins,
> so maybe it's better to change GRAPHICAL-WEB-BROWSER to
> NS-PLUGIN-COMPATIBLE or something like that?
> 

Perhaps leave the GRAPHICAL-WEB-BROWSER for future use, and add a
NS-PLUGIN provider and use that for packages that provide Netscape
plug-in functionality.

-sandalle

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