Epiphany depends on Firefox?

Antony Gelberg antony at wayforth.co.uk
Thu Apr 20 22:15:31 UTC 2006


Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Could someone explain why the package 'epiphany-browser' depends on 
> 'firefox' and 'yelp'? That's ridiculous. No, using Gecko is no excuse. I 
> shouldn't have to have the firefox package installed to run epiphany.

Epiphany has depended on Mozilla since Gnome 2.4. 
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/notes/rnapplications.html

Perhaps when http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner is ready, 
this will change. 
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner:What_XULRunner_Provides




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