Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package "www-client/firefox"

[Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org>]

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On 12/6/24 12:05 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> On 04 Dec 2024 15:35:10 +0100 I myself asked:
>> ...
>> Gentoo provides  two flavours  of Firefox,  one in slot "esr"  (Extended
>> Support Release) and one in slot "rapid"  (new release  every 16 weeks).
>> ...
>>                                                     So which slot should
>> I choose?  Any opinions out there?
> 
> Thank you for the replies.
> 
> Of the three people responding  one reply was in favour of "esr" and two
> were in favour of "rapid"  (pessimists would comment "only one more...",
> while optimists would comment "twice as much!" :-)
> 
> Since in the past Firefox required some 100 minutes  to build on my lap-
> top, I checked the binhost and found version 128.5.0:esr.   Nothing from
> slot "rapid" there.   And in the  normal Gentoo tree  there are also the
> two ebuilds  "www-client/firefox-bin-128.5.1:esr"  and "www-client/fire-
> fox-bin-133.0:rapid".   Not sure why there are still these "*-bin" pack-
> ages and why there are no "*:rapid" versions on the binhost at all.


The "*-bin" packages are binaries that Mozilla compiled. Packages that
install prebuilt binaries can be stabilized much faster than packages
that compile from source as there is much less that can go wrong.

Due to rapid changing much more frequently I suspect there's less
interest in having it stabilized as it would mostly tend to make users
recompile the package much more frequently, and it takes quite a long
time... this is funnily enough why I'd love to have rapid in the
binhost, but also why it *cannot* be in the binhost: because the binhost
uses stable keywords.

It's a problem I'd like to see solved. I have thoughts about it but they
are not complete.


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Eli Schwartz

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