Why does OpenOffice have a dependency on Mozilla?

From: javaguy_in_wheaton (javaguy_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 01/17/04 

Date: 16 Jan 2004 20:03:17 -0800

I currently have neither OpenOffice or Mozilla on my Fedora FC1. I
want to install just OpenOffice. Surprise! Mozilla is a dependency.
Is this a feature of OpenOffice or just the way Red Hat packages
things?

BTW, I'm unhappy with the installer applet. I tried to uninstall both
OO and Moz and was told there was a dependency on openoffice.org-libs.
 So I uninstalled OO and openoffice.org-libs was still there. Went to
SU and killed it, then Moz would uninstall.

Tried to reinstall Moz and was told it couldn't find dependent .so
files. Later, I tried again and it *could* find them and would
install OO for me -- along with Mozilla again. Bah!

Thanks for answers,
Jerome.

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