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More security updates

Posted Mar 26, 2008 21:40 UTC (Wed) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498)
Parent article: More security updates

This post should be sufficient proof that the Gecko folks desperately need to get things
packaged up as dynamically linkable, ABI stable libraries. 17 extraneous package updates due
to a single vulnerability is a bit ridiculous. Perhaps this type of thing will help drive
webkit adoption?


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Posted Mar 27, 2008 23:25 UTC (Thu) by abartlet (subscriber, #3928) [Link]

Probably not, but it certainly is driving the 'make everything just depend on xulrunner'
effort in Fedora.

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