On 23.09.2012 13:10, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 23.09.2012 13:06, schrieb Thorsten Leemhuis: >> Has anybody considered to package the ESR releases for Fedora or is the >> general consensus "that doesn't make much sense, just leads to confusion >> and is not worth the trouble". I now and then could need a parallel >> installed Firefox ESR for a Webinterface that officially only supports >> ESR releases. I can simply install one in my homedir, but it would be >> nice to have it yum-installable from the stock Fedora repos (but the >> problem does not bug me enough to submit a package myself). > you can not have BOTH in the repos in a way that > the installation doses not conflict and you are > missing that switch between both will bring > you problems with your profile Something like that, yeah. > YOU may be able to work around them with seperated profiles > 99 out of 100 users are not and would damage their data All that software that is involved is open-source, hence solutions or workarounds for today's problems could be developed if someone thinks it is worth the trouble. > what is this for webinterface only supporting ESR? > why in the world should a WEBPAGE not work with a NEWER firefox? It's not so much about "work", more about "support", because for a software vendor it's risky if you are telling your customers that your software is supporting browsers that are not made yet ;-) Even supporting state of the art browsers is sometimes something software companies fail to achieve. Look here for example: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.1-Beta/html-single/Administration_Guide/index.html#Jasper_reports_system_requirements Quoting: """ The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reports tool supports the following browsers: In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 - Firefox 3.6 In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - Firefox 3.6 """ IOW: If you want it or not, you sometimes need older browsers if you want to run a supported configuration (the example is bad because here one even needs a old, EOLed browser and not a Firefox ESR that's still supported; but you get the idea). CU knurd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
