Mike Hearn wrote:
I think it's better to depend on an actual library, as opposed to a component of another application. Maybe if Mozilla split it out into a separate project with separate releases, packaging etc, it might be better. Maybe they already have ...
I think they have, also if the site doesn't show them. Gentoo has a dev-libs/nss ebuild to build this without the need of Mozilla and download them from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/ where there are also many binaries.