[gentoo-user] Re: Package "www-client/firefox"

[Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>]

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.

But anyway,  after making up my decision I will be able to install a bi-
nary package :-)

Sincerely,
  Rainer