On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Kelly Clowers wrote:
You say Moz (?) but, if you refer to Seamonkey, that is diifferent (from
what I understand) to iceape, which has, from what I understand, some of the
Mozilla stuff that makes Mozilla software what it is, removed.
The only thing that should be removed is the name.
I may be wrong in my understanding, but I believe that some of the
functionality was removed, in the modifications of the Mozilla products
to create the Debian products iceape and iceweasel, as the Mozilla
products apparently did not comply with the Debian philosophy and thence
Mozilla products in their Mozilla forms were no longer available via the
Debian repositories.
My experience of trying to install and update the binaries or whatever,
from the Mozilla web site, rather than installing .deb packages using
the Debian package management system, was that it was like trying to do
brain surgery with a sledgehammer; completely messy, and leading to a
useless mess.
One of the factors that led to my conversion to Debian, several years
ago, was the ease of locating and installing packages, using the Debian
package management system. I am not sure, but I believe that it was
somewhere around Debian 3.0, that I was converted, by a local Debian or
otherwise Linux guru.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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