On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 01:07 +0200, Maciej Małecki wrote: > Hello everyone! > > As it is my first mail to this list, let me briefly introduce myself: > I am Maciej Małecki, software developer based in Poznań, Poland. I've > been using Fedora since F11 (and I love it). > > The point is: is there a chance to have Mozilla Aurora, Beta and > Nightly in F16 repositories? I think it would make life easier for > quite many people. Now installation process is to download .tar.gz > from Mozilla, unpack to /usr/lib64/firefox-7 (for Aurora) and create a > .desktop file in /usr/share/applications. > > Mozilla guys discussed it here: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600317, however most of > the links are outdated/404. I'm not claiming to speak for the Firefox maintainers, but I think it would probably be an unfair amount of work to expect from them. Packaging such a complex suite of software such as Firefox takes a lot of work, especially when dealing with new dependencies. I think the only reasonable request we can make of the package maintainers is that to make sure the stable releases are available in the official repository. That said, there's no reason an intrepid group of volunteers could not create their own add-on respository (either on FedoraPeople or another hosting provider). They just need to be aware of all the pitfalls of packaging Mozilla software. In truth, it's probably easiest all-around for those users actually willing to install alpha and beta software on their systems to just download the upstream binary tarball and do a local install in their own home directory. This requires no packaging (as the entire install is located in their personal space instead of having to manage many RPM dependencies and file conflicts with other versions of Firefox.
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