On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 09:17 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > 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 > Let alone the fact that, AFAIK, firefox is not parallel installable. - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
