2011/3/24 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx>: > drago01 wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> Adam Williamson wrote: >>>> In the particular case of Firefox, this isn't a problem, as it just >>>> gives you one giant static executable...so it's very easy to >>>> 'uninstall'. :) >>> >>> Did they really manage to stuff even the resources into the binary? Wow, >>> very un-unixy! ;-) >> >> They didn't do that ... > > So it's not one big file… Scattered resource files are exactly what's most > likely to stick around as garbage after uninstalling or upgrading in the > absence of package management. > > Kevin Kofler > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel I think this discussion goes in the wrong direction. Firefox 4 is (for me) a working browser that I want to use. Without a proper rpm the tarball is the only solution left. Spot's solution circumvents the xulrunner nightmare and Remi's idea is what I think should go in the official repo. Or maybe "being on the edge" isn't why we all use this distro? --jason -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
