2011/3/24 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at>:
drago01 wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at>
> wrote:
>> Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> In the particular case of Firefox, this isn't a problem, as it just
>>> gives you one giant static executable...so it's very easy to
>>> 'uninstall'. :)
>>
>> Did they really manage to stuff even the resources into the binary? Wow,
>> very un-unixy! ;-)
>
> They didn't do that ...
So it's not one big file… Scattered resource files are exactly what's most
likely to stick around as garbage after uninstalling or upgrading in the
absence of package management.
Kevin Kofler
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I think this discussion goes in the wrong direction. Firefox 4 is (for
me) a working browser that I want to use. Without a proper rpm the
tarball is the only solution left. Spot's solution circumvents the
xulrunner nightmare and Remi's idea is what I think should go in the
official repo.
Or maybe "being on the edge" isn't why we all use this distro?
--jason