Epiphany depends on Firefox?

[Antony Gelberg]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> netkid91 wrote:
> 
>> Uhmm...Pardon my arrogance...But actually needing Gecko is a PERFECT
>> reason to require Firefox.
> 
> 
> No, I don't think so at all. Gecko is an HTML rederer. Firefox is a web 
> browser. Those are very different beasts. Firefox is a lot bigger than 
> Gecko, it has a lot more bugs, and I don't want to be updating it just 
> because I use a different Gecko-based browser.
> 
>>  This is simply because the Firefox package
>> includes the XPCOM components and the Gecko engine, and because
>> Epiphany is dynamically linked against Gecko.
> 
> 
> Gecko should be a separate package?

See my previous email in this thread.  It can only be separate in Ubuntu 
and Debian when it is separate upstream.

>> Now, once you get off of your high-horse
> 
> 
> Is that a personal attack? That's against the Code of Conduct.
> 
>> don't ask why, it's just the way it is.
> 
> 
> That's a very sad attitude. If everyone else had that attitude we'd 
> still be in the stone age.

Is /that/ a personal attack?  Please try to stop chucking the CoC around 
every time somebody says something that /you/ find annoying.  Yes, the 
Code is there for a reason, but practically it has bigger fish to fry. 
Differences of opinion happen in public, it's part of life.