xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs

[Martin Sourada]

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 13:40 +0000, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Martin Sourada, Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:39:00 +0200:
> > But I have my doubts about
> > mozilla in this regard, after all, proper support on linux does not seem
> > to be high priority for them
> 
> I just fell the urge to mention here
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577653#c6
> and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Good point. But I vaguely recall a few years (is it so long already?)
when the html5 thing was starting there was a bug in mozilla's bugzilla
to allow use of system libvorbis (or maybe some other html5 video
related one) with the same reaction, but after all, it might be the same
person...

Anyway, don't feel any weight in my statement, it's just remnants of
past frustration with having to use rpath for mozplugins (and thus
rebuild for every firefox release, even though the api/abi remained
same) softly reinforced by the fact that now you don't need rpath, but
unless someone announces API/ABI changes, you'll notice them only after
someone fills a bug that your plugin does not work (yes, this is
precisely the kind of thing that could be caught by usual dependency
check if mozilla used properly versioned libraries...)

Plus, I believe I said it a few months (maybe years) back, but I don't
like that mozilla decided to use the codecs directly (instead of using
platform dependent framework like gstreamer), not to mention they bundle
their own patched versions...

</slight rant>

Anyway, I hope you manage to solve this problem soon :)

Martin
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