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Mike Connor has written a weblog post proposing raising the runtime requirements for Mozilla applications on Linux. Historically, Mozilla on Linux has had fairly conservative requirements, employing runtime checks and workarounds to support older libraries or work around known bugs. While this means that Mozilla applications will run on older Linux distributions, it has led to some compromises and ugly hacks in the Mozilla code, making it harder to maintain.
...but the explicit requirement (as written) for Gnome is disturbing - unless they just mean "if you compile with special Gnome support, you must have at least this version" rather than "from now on, you must have Gnome installed..."
I think they just upped the version number. IIRC "gnome" is now also a requirement. All you need are the base gnome libraries, not the desktop enviroment. Think gconf.
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