Bill Nottingham wrote: > Rex Dieter (rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said: >> imo, avoid the mess, firefox could use an unversioned folder, >> say, /usr/lib/firefox. I assume there's good reasons not to do this tho, >> else the firefox packagin/maintainer would be doing this already, right? >> :) > > It doesn't have a consistent ABI, so using a single location would lead > to apps breaking when the ABI changes - at least with a different folder > they break in a predictable way. I was afraid of that excuse. Imo, Not a good one, bad packaging practice. Dependent pkgs already (or should!) include (something like). Requires: firefox = <some_version> -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
