Benno Schulenberg schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>I understand heavy development, but three >>upgrades in three days is a bit much even for me > > > Come on, Holly, when you're running unstable (~x86), you've got to > be ready to take frequent updates. Or, to circumvent this, you > could sync less often: once a week works fine here.
In this case, syncing less often wasn't an issue-- the reason I had to upgrade to 1.0.6 was due to a GLSA. Having to upgrade once due to instability of the GLSA upgrade is fine, but twice is a bit annoying, especially when that means *6* compiles (firefox and thunderbird each three times). And the fact that we're revising on-the-fly, as it were, would suggest that there's 'no end in sight'-- at least I as a user can't see any such end, since being neither a Mozilla nor a Gentoo developer, I don't know if everything that needed to be fixed is finished being fixed or not, or if there remain any 'loose ends' to be tied. I understand completely that 'these things happen', and I'm not complaining about that *per se*, I'd just like to know if there is in fact an end in sight, and whether we've perhaps reached it (or it is at least close). > > >>(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. > > > There's no problem with using Firefox while it is being compiled. > Only as soon as it has actually been merged, it may be wise to > restart it. Not completely true. You can use an already-opened instance of Firefox--- as long as you stay within the same window. Open another window for any reason, and the whole thing will close down (because you can't open a new instance of Firefox while Firefox is compiling). So forums or database sites that open new windows to create posts, or display information about an item in the database are unuseable during this time. Rather than control my surfing, I prefer to use another browser until Firefox is finished compiling. Holly > > Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
