Comment 28 for bug 483443

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In , Tomeu Vizoso (tomeu) wrote :

(In reply to comment #26)
> (In reply to comment #24)
> Plus, IIRC, doesn't OLPC only ship with GIO and not gnome-vfs?

Yup, we had to branch the fedora packages in order to give up on this dependency.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=65584

> Less code to maintain and less interface complexity is always a good thing.

Not only that, but this also means that any app that embeds xulrunner as currently shipped by linux distros has to be a GNOME App, that meaning that they need to link and use deprecated libraries.

For example, the browser in Sugar has to do this workaround:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/browse/repos/mainline/commits/c19e24ebe86bb1be38b9ff03fa2557248ebdf6b8

I lost several hours debugging this issue and I hope we can agree in that Gnome-vfs usage in mozilla is very inconvenient for embedders, specially in platforms with low resources.