Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

["Tero Grundström" <tero@vuosaari.hai.fi>]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote:

> I've gotta say, I'm getting tired of upgrading them (I saw the upgrade
> to 1.0.6 two days ago, but waited; there was an upgrade to 1.0.6-r1,
> which I took yesterday afternoon, and today I have to upgrade to 1.0.6-r2).

I'm getting tired of it too. I would understand this upgrade cycle with 
some smaller packages, but ff and tb are huge programs to compile this 
often.

And as if bumping the revisions were not enough they keep deleting the 
previous versions from the tree making it hard to mask the new ones:
If the old one is gone, you just cannot add the new one to your 
package.mask file - you also have to put a "fake" ebuild to your local 
portage tree. Otherwise portage will want to *downgrade* with emerge -u 
world. Or worse, complain about missing packages if the current one is 
the only one in the tree, as it was with firefox-1.0.5-r1.


> In any case, I'm not having any problems with firefox or tbird 1.0.6-r1

That's the real paradox here. I don't remember when was the last time I 
had a problem with ff (actually I use only Galeon these days, compiled 
against ff) so it feels so stupid to compile it just because of these 
revision bumps (yeah, I know - you don't *have to* upgrade, they'll 
say - but then again, read what I said above).


> I was going to post a question as to whether anybody knew how many more
> revisions we're going to see to the Mozilla programs in the next couple
> days; I understand heavy development, but three upgrades in three days
> is a bit much even for me (since it takes an hour and a half or so to
> compile each program, and further means I have to use Konq for that time
> if I don't want to mess up ff by having it loaded while it's upgrading.

Hmmm... I don't see how it could mess ff this way.

> So I'd love to know if this is likely to settle down soon, if anybody
> happens to follow the relevant development.

Relevant? But is it really...? ;-)

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