Does Core have an accurate count of packages which are built against libraries from firefox?

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Dec 27 17:09:04 UTC 2006


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> But I just ran into the fact that esc was also affect by the firefox
> update by accident.
> /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/xulrunner-bin  links against
> libmozjs.so
> libxpcom.so
> which can't be found by the linker since these are both packages in
> the versioned firefox directory tree. My god damn home workstation
> died yesterday(merry christmas to me!) so if someone else can bugzilla
> this before I get a chance...go right ahead.

This is a serious bug.  What the hell is ESC doing packaging an entire 
copy of every gecko library and shipping with an entire gecko source 
tree if it's going to rely on the system installed copies?  This aside 
from the fact that ESC using gecko at all is a calamity of an 
engineering decision, IMO.




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