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