Re: [Cooker] Firefox3 beta for 2008.1??

[Giuseppe Ghibò]

Vincent Danen ha scritto:
> * [2008-04-29 22:52:06 +0200] Tomasz Pawe?? Gajc wrote:
>
> > Well it works fine here, anyways i think i've messed up file list in
> > last commit.
> >
> > I have two ideas:
> > 1. Stick to a fake libification, which i add to latest
> >     commit. I think it is pointless to define major as a
> > current version of firefox.
> >
> > 2. Drop "mozilla" from %{name}, just to be close with upstream name.
> >
> >
> > No problem, i've just made(i hope) a good startfor you to play with
> > ff 3.0.
>
> At the same time, can we please stop with versioned libs or figure out a
> way so that everything that uses firefox as a buildrequires doesn't need
> to be recompiled every time we push an update?
>
> It seriously looks like we're the only ones who push such retardedly
> large updates everytime a new ff/tb comes out, and it's really past time
> to fix that.
The way is pretty easy. Just provide a selfcontained firefox3 with all the
libraries needed into /usr/lib/, without having to share any library of 
firefox in libification
of libmozilla-firefox3xxx, libmozilla-firefox3xxx-devel or something 
like that.
It's not obeyed to share even the latest drop of library. A conditional 
flag in SPEC file
would allow to work with a common SPEC file even for 2009.0 where the 
libification process is due.

In this way you can easily provide a 'firefox3' package as an added 
value for 2008.1, without
risking to mess up the entire distro. From who have to just use firefox 
IMHO this is enough. The other distro packages
which are linked with older libmozilla-firefox2xxx will continue to use 
that one. Let's say it's an intermediate
way between downloading the binaries from the mozilla.org site and use 
in a stanalone dir
in your $HOME (which will lack of menu entries, etc.), and a full 
libified firefox which would require extra recompilation.