Re: [Cooker] Firefox3 beta for 2008.1??

[Vincent Danen]

* [2008-04-30 10:02:19 +0200] G?tz Waschk wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Vincent Danen <vdanen@mandriva.com> wrote:
> >  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.
> As Fréd is on vacation I have to repeat his mantra: this is not
> possible, only when we go to xulrunner. But he doesn't want to do that
> as it is not supported upstream by Mozilla.com. Fedora can do this
> themselves as they have the manpower.

This is a foolish cop-out.  There is a lot of stuff we're taking almost
straight from Fedora/Red Hat now, like mkinitrd and other things so that
maintenance can be eased.  Why is firefox such a different case?

And it's not just Fedora that's doing this... look at any other distro
and you'll see that none of them are putting out over 3GB worth of junk
everytime firefox is updated.

--
Vincent Danen @ http://linsec.ca/

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