On Aug 11, 2015 10:38 PM, "Chris Murphy" <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Josh Stone <jist...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 08/11/2015 12:12 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> Yet I see a Linux tar.bz2 for Firefox at downloads.mozilla.org so I > >> wonder why that binary doesn't just run unmodified anywhere and I'm > >> waiting for 40.0 to show up in Bodhi? > > > > If you don't see the value of distro integration and testing, then by > > all means, go use mozilla's binaries. > > I do not see the value in manually checking koji for Firefox updates > and then manually downloading and installing them. That's just not > going to happen by pretty much anybody. I have u-t enabled, I do > testing, this update is not in u-t yet. > > If I knew Mozilla's Linux binaries provided its own update mechanism > and notification, yes I would do exactly that.
I am pretty sure they get updated just like Windows and OS X binaries, but the tar ball should be extracted in a user writable location. I sometimes extract it into .firefox (hidden) folder in my home and create a shortcut in KDE menu. Mustafa >And I'd still ask what > the benefit is of duplicating this effort? It sounds like it's not > actually a benefit, rather it's "because packaging". > > -- > Chris Murphy > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
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