On June 16, 2003 12:15 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > but for more detailed things, like flash in konqueror or
> > realplayer plugins in
> > mozilla, why not a basic yes/no question period?:
> >
> > # emerge -p mozilla
> > Do you want flash? y
> > Do you want real player? y
> > Do you want <some sucky plugin>? n
> > ...compiling list
> >
> > [ebuild N ] net-www/mozilla-1.3-r2
> > [ebuild N ] net-www/netscape-flash-6.0.79
> > [ebuild N ] media-video/realplayer-8-r5
>
> I like the concept of the idea, but how would the ebuild for Mozilla know
> about all possible plug-in and add ons? New data type may come along after
> the ebuild is written, and as a user I don't even know about it until I run
> into the data type on the web.
>
> I can see the logic of how M$ does it:
>
> 1) You browse until you have a problem.
>
> 2) A dialog pops up and say I need something, based on a certain data type.
> IE6 offers to download something. Mozilla offers to save the file.
>
> 3) At this point, if there was a link to some web page that has known
> associations and what needs to be downloaded/emerged to use the data type,
> then I could open a xterm and as root go make it happen.
i can see your point, but i would think that your solution would require a
considerable amount of work on mozilla's end rather than gentoo's. so while
i might agree that your solution is a good one, methinks that this list is
not your intended forum.
initially though i was trying to touch on the idea of an "out of the box"
setup for a web browser. something that would setup/install all the required
stuff you'd want for your browsing without overcomplicating the USE system
and this IS something gentoo could impliment (how easily i suppose would be
something the developers would have to talk about)
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