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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Better approach to firefox script
  • Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:46:20 -0700 (PDT)

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
On Aug 10, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
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That's the reason used for why you didn't want the script modified as
David Brown suggested...make up your mind (unless I'm misreading)
please. You don't want a distro (even if they 'all' do it to make it
easy) modifying what the package authors intended without good reason.

I think it's reasonable and necessary to add a symlink (with
LD_LIBRARY_PATH magic) so that people can run 'firefox' after installation
at a prompt and get a running program, instead of a "firefox not found" or
missing library error. There's no denying the mozilla developers make
things difficult for distributors.

Yes, yes they do. ;/ A configuration option would give the user the
choice (probably default to the 'old' behaviour and this could/should
be applied to mozilla as well), but, as Jason said earlier, adding yet
more queries. ;) I'd prefer to have it 'work' by default and I don't
see this as a big change, but then perhaps that's the pebble that
started the avalanche, which is why we allow and encourage peer review
such as this. ;)

What I was questioning is whether we want the firefox that runs to be
different from the default someone gets if they install it from source
manually and run it, assuming they also manually have done the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH magic themselves so that running it does work.

Not a big deal either way, I'm still new here so I'm not trying to speak
authoritatively on what our operating philosophies are or anything, just
thinking out loud from what I've observed they seem to be.

Which is appreciated even if I sounded mean above (which I didn't intend
to, but getting ready for bed and not thinking clearly ;), sorry about
that).

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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