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On Saturday, 18 June 2022 13:30:16 BST Julien Roy wrote: |
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> By default, only the LTS/ESR release of Firefox is unmasked (or marked |
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> as stable), of which the latest version is 91.10.0, however, if you |
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> unmask it, you can use the latest Firefox version, currently 101.0.1. |
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> Though unmasking Firefox leads to more frequent rebuilds since the rapid |
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> release has, well, frequent releases. |
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Yes, and that's a good reason for not doing so. I have another machine running |
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~amd64; this one's stable for everyday use. Well, it's supposed to be stable. |
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I did keyword firefox to test SP against the sound system, but I've reverted to |
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the older version. |
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> As a side note, by default, searching using `emerge --search` does not |
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> show the available masked versions (not sure if an option exists to |
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> change that). One option that I recommend is to install app-portage/eix, |
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Yes, I've been using it for many years. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |