gnucash 2.0.2-1.fc6.x86-64 depends on firefox

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Charles Tuckey wrote:

> On 12/13/06, Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> wrote:
>> According to a `yum deplist gnucash`, Gnucash depends on Yelp (most
>> likely for its help and documentation system internally). Yelp, in turn,
>> uses the Gecko libraries of Firefox for its rendering.
>> 
>
> Ah, thank you Peter. I didn't know about 'yum deplist'. For the
> curious,  here's a synopsis of the output for yelp:
>
> package: yelp.x86_64 2.16.0-9.fc6
> dependency: libxpcom.so()(64bit)
>  provider: firefox.x86_64 1.5.0.7-7.fc6
> dependency: libgtkembedmoz.so()(64bit)
>  provider: firefox.x86_64 1.5.0.8-1.fc6
> dependency: gecko-libs = 1.8.0.7
>  provider: firefox.i386 1.5.0.7-8.fc6
> dependency: libxpcom_core.so()(64bit)
>  provider: firefox.x86_64 1.5.0.8-1.fc6
>
> Everything except 'gecko-libs' is also provided by thunderbird but, as
> you suggested, 'gecko-libs' is only available from firefox.
>
> This  seems strange to me - that to install yelp you actually have to
> download and install all of firefox. Just looked into yelp. It is the
> gnome help browser. Since I don't have yelp installed this would
> explain why F1 is not working for me in my installation. This makes it
> doubly strange; firefox has to be installed to view help in gnome!

Well, help in gnome relies on some libs that are included with Fx.  The 
ideal solution would be to break the gecko-libs out of Fx and make Fx 
depend on them.  Then other things that require gecko-libs could install 
them without installing all of Fx.

You might bugzilla this suggestion and see what the packager's reaction 
is.

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> charlie
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 		Matthew Saltzman

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