gecko download not robust?

[Austin English]

On Feb 9, 2008 5:17 PM, marco <marco at mandrivaclub.nl> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hmm.  gecko download hung for me once.  I saw
> > fixme:urlmon:ProtocolStream_Read Read failed: 800c0008
> > in the log, which makes me wonder if our download code
> > doesn't handle transient network errors well.
> >
> > Time to get rid of the download, and just bundle gecko outright, I say...
>
> I make the mandriva rpms for wine.
> This would make the rpms 30% bigger.
> And you would download the same gecko binary over and over again with
> every new version.
>
> But if that is not a problem than it can be easily done.
>
>

Why not have package maintainers package gecko like most do
development files. So you could have for example on ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install wine wine-dev wine-gecko

Where wine-gecko wouldn't have to be upgraded very often.

-Austin