Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

[Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>]

On Saturday 04 February 2006 08:26, Beau E. Cox wrote:
> On Saturday 04 February 2006 03:09 am, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> > I'd like to run Firefox 1.5.  The latest stable build appears to be 1.07.
> > I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which
> > resulted in Deer Park being installed.  I don't want Deer Park, just the
> > 1.5 release version.  I've considered downloading the source and manually
> > installing but I'd prefer not to do something which may confuse portage
> > at some point.  Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> I think I read that Deer Park is the name for Firefox that is used
> to get an GPL-type liscense - but is really Firefox.

I'm aware that Deer Park IS Firefox but my understanding was that Deer Park 
was a nightly release build and not the official 1.5 release.  I thought it 
was the equivalent of grabbing the most recent source (at the time the 
package was created) from CVS rather than getting the official release 
source.  Am I confused?

Part of the issue is that several of my extensions complained that they were 
only compatible with Firefox 0.? - 1.5 when I restarted Firefox.  

> I have several packages that I maintain 'manually' (outside of portage)
> and I have experienced no portage 'confusion', i.e. Apache 2.2, mod_perl,
> mysql-5.1.5-alpha, etc. I install them to /usr/local and portage
> doesn't care.

Cool!  I'll look into that.

And thanks to everyone who replied.

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