Ubuntu's multisearch surprise
Ubuntu's multisearch surprise
Posted Aug 10, 2009 6:29 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise by ringerc
Parent article: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise
All your examples are rather bad. FF doesn't use the system libpng even if
you build your own copy, because FF relies on some patches that were
rejected by upstream. And FF ships NSS because, um, they were shipping NSS
many years before any Linux distros were using it for anything else at all
(and a good few still don't: its only real advantage is certification
stuff, and if you don't care about certifications GnuTLS has a far less
ugly interface and OpenSSL is faster).
you build your own copy, because FF relies on some patches that were
rejected by upstream. And FF ships NSS because, um, they were shipping NSS
many years before any Linux distros were using it for anything else at all
(and a good few still don't: its only real advantage is certification
stuff, and if you don't care about certifications GnuTLS has a far less
ugly interface and OpenSSL is faster).