Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

[Chan Min Wai <dcmwai@pl.jaring.my>]

Daniel D Jones wrote:
> On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:37, Holly Bostick wrote:
>   
>> Daniel D Jones schreef:
>>     
>>> 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?
>>>       
>> Yes, you are. Have a look at the ebuild:
>> # $Header:
>> /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/www-client/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-firefox-1.5-r11.
>> ebuild,v 1.1 2006/02/01 22:13:20 anarchy Exp $
>>     
> ...
>   
>> As you see, the source tarball is being downloaded from the releases
>> folder of Mozilla.org's ftp, not any CVS or nightly build folder.
>>
>> Ebuilds from development trees such as CVS or "nightlies" are clearly so
>> marked in their title, if they exist.
>>
>> For example, I use an ebuild for Krusader (provided by on the Homepage)
>> which builds from the project's CVS tree, and it is rightfully called
>> "krusader-cvs" rather than the normal "krusader" ebuild provided by
>> Portage.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the info and for clearing up my confusion.
>
>   
>> If an ebuild doesn't say it's compiling from CVS, it isn't. And of
>> course, you can always just open it in a text editor and /look/...
>>     
>
> I'm still learning how Portage works.  I wasn't aware that ebuilds were that 
> straightforward.
>
>   

After reading all the thread I only confused on one thing.

Why The [Account Setting] And [Preference] is Under the [Edit] Menu 
Where on the windows build it is under the [Tools] Menu.


Any Idea?
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