On 01-04-27 Jérôme Marant wrote: > Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > May I ask why you don't mention that this is a web browser for Gnome? > > This information would be helpful for people that look for a lightweight > > HTML browser, but don't want to install Gnome. For those people this > > browser will not be a alternative, since it pulls in the whole bunch of > > gnome libs. :(
> I mainly focused on low memory consumption, and Encompass meet this
> requirement.
Since maybe it wasn't obvious. I quite like to see software and
especially a web browser that doesn't use much memory.
> Then, mentioning Gnome usually make people think that the Gnome
> Desktop Environment is required to run the browser which is not the
> case.
Well, I think that's a wrong assumption that people make, but you can't
change it. So maybe it should have been worded "mentioned the dependency
on the gnome libs".
> And unless you have disk space restrictions, I don't see the problem
> with installing gnome libs since these are shared between a growing
> number of applications.
> (Political reasons for not installing Gnome are not good reasons)
<Sarcasm>
So come on people, let's install all 6000 packages, because maybe we
could use them once.
</Sarcasm>
Well, I just try to keep my system as clean as possible, which includes
for me that I also check the installed libraries. And every time I try
one of those gnome apps, I'm astonished about the big bunch of libraries
that I have to install. Therefor I would prefer applications that just
depend on the GTK Libraries and not the Gnome-Libraries. Therefor I
would prefer it to know in advance if an ITP'ed software could become
interesting for me or not.
Christian
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