Re: many packages depend on mozilla-browser but I build it from source

2004-07-10 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:40:55 -0700 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:32:50PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > > ... However, > > many other interesting packages also depend on mozilla-browser. > > Strike that: apparently I was way off base. A lot of the

Re: many packages depend on mozilla-browser but I build it from source

2004-07-10 Thread Thomas Adam
--- William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suppose I'll just have to make a dummy mozilla-browser package with > equivs and install that, and deal with breakages myself. Do you think > that will be feasible? Yes, this is exactly what equivs was designed for. > Why do all these packa

Re: many packages depend on mozilla-browser but I build it from source

2004-07-10 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:32:50PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > ... However, > many other interesting packages also depend on mozilla-browser. Strike that: apparently I was way off base. A lot of the things like "c-cpp-reference" don't explicitly depend on mozilla-browser; they only de

many packages depend on mozilla-browser but I build it from source

2004-07-10 Thread William Ballard
I want to try monodevelop, which depends on libgecko-cil (a mono binding for embedding Moz) which in turn depends on mozilla-browser. However, many other interesting packages also depend on mozilla-browser. I build mozilla from source, and don't install it via a .deb or even install it at all,