On 23.09.2012 13:10, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 23.09.2012 13:06, schrieb Thorsten Leemhuis:
> Has anybody considered to package the ESR releases for Fedora or is the
> general consensus "that doesn't make much sense, just leads to confusion
> and is not worth the trouble". I now and then could need a parallel
> installed Firefox ESR for a Webinterface that officially only supports
> ESR releases. I can simply install one in my homedir, but it would be
> nice to have it yum-installable from the stock Fedora repos (but the
> problem does not bug me enough to submit a package myself).
you can not have BOTH in the repos in a way that
the installation doses not conflict and you are
missing that switch between both will bring
you problems with your profile
Something like that, yeah.
YOU may be able to work around them with seperated profiles
99 out of 100 users are not and would damage their data
All that software that is involved is open-source, hence solutions or
workarounds for today's problems could be developed if someone thinks it
is worth the trouble.
what is this for webinterface only supporting ESR?
why in the world should a WEBPAGE not work with a NEWER firefox?
It's not so much about "work", more about "support", because for
a
software vendor it's risky if you are telling your customers that your
software is supporting browsers that are not made yet ;-) Even
supporting state of the art browsers is sometimes something software
companies fail to achieve. Look here for example:
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtual...
Quoting:
"""
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reports tool supports the
following browsers:
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 - Firefox 3.6
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - Firefox 3.6
"""
IOW: If you want it or not, you sometimes need older browsers if you
want to run a supported configuration (the example is bad because here
one even needs a old, EOLed browser and not a Firefox ESR that's still
supported; but you get the idea).
CU
knurd