Kai Ponte wrote:
On Monday 11 February 2008 08:59:05 pm Basil Chupin wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Basil Chupin [02-11-08 22:49]:
I don't understand what you mean by "unmanaged"?
If you mean that there is no Suse around to hold your hand in keeping
the FF installation going then you need not worry! FF updates itself
when Mozilla releases a new upgrade/update/whatever you want to call it.
Also, any addons auto-date as well.
But doesn't include the enhancements provided by the openSUSE
packagers :^(
OK, I'll bite!
What 'enhancements' are provided by openSUSE?
(I can see your tongue-in-cheek :-) .)
Stupid question - but...
..if you wanted to roll your own version of software_x, and still have it in
the package management system, then couldn't one compile said software and
then use checkinstall to create an RPM?
Then if an update comes out wouldn't that then work nice with the<insert
distro here> package management system?
Aaargh!
Kai, my sincere apologies for my earlier response.
I misread what you wrote and took it the wrong way.
Again, my sincere apologies.
Yes, I guess what you stated in your response is correct. One could roll
an RPM from a tarball from Mozilla.org and install it.
Only difference is that the tarball would need to be somehow altered to
make it install in the default location where openSUSE normally installs FF.
I always simply untar the tarball and "install" (ie, replace the
/mozilla directory ) FF in my home directory - because I am the only
user of my system. What one would need to do to have it available for
multiple users of the OS I cannot say.
Eh, cannot but repeat my apology for misreading what you wrote and as a
consequence giving you a "blast" :-( .
A humble 'Ciao'.
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