gecko download not robust?

[marco]

Austin English wrote:
> 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
>
>   

I looked into it.
And there are some options.

I can make a separate  package  of gecko  that  I can make it a 
dependencie of wine.
Problem is people have to know where to find it or the get stuck.

I can also make the package and make it not a dependencie on wine but 
the the people don't know it exist.

And I can just put it in the wine package.

I think this is the best option in this case. Its the easiest option 
because people only have to download en install one package.

marco