On 12/6/24 12:05 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > On 04 Dec 2024 15:35:10 +0100 I myself asked: >> ... >> Gentoo provides two flavours of Firefox, one in slot "esr" (Extended >> Support Release) and one in slot "rapid" (new release every 16 weeks). >> ... >> So which slot should >> I choose? Any opinions out there? > > Thank you for the replies. > > Of the three people responding one reply was in favour of "esr" and two > were in favour of "rapid" (pessimists would comment "only one more...", > while optimists would comment "twice as much!" :-) > > Since in the past Firefox required some 100 minutes to build on my lap- > top, I checked the binhost and found version 128.5.0:esr. Nothing from > slot "rapid" there. And in the normal Gentoo tree there are also the > two ebuilds "www-client/firefox-bin-128.5.1:esr" and "www-client/fire- > fox-bin-133.0:rapid". Not sure why there are still these "*-bin" pack- > ages and why there are no "*:rapid" versions on the binhost at all.
The "*-bin" packages are binaries that Mozilla compiled. Packages that install prebuilt binaries can be stabilized much faster than packages that compile from source as there is much less that can go wrong. Due to rapid changing much more frequently I suspect there's less interest in having it stabilized as it would mostly tend to make users recompile the package much more frequently, and it takes quite a long time... this is funnily enough why I'd love to have rapid in the binhost, but also why it *cannot* be in the binhost: because the binhost uses stable keywords. It's a problem I'd like to see solved. I have thoughts about it but they are not complete. -- Eli Schwartz
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