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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Aug 10, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
<snip>
> > 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
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http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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