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From: James <bjlockie@××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 15:38:22
Message-Id: 35279.207.210.33.66.1211901061.squirrel@www.lockie.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 by Justin
1 > Alastair Irving schrieb:
2 >> Hi
3 >>
4 >> I'm fairly new to gentoo, and was wondering what success people hav had
5 >> with
6 >> firefox 3. I unmasked the relevent ebuild, but this then required a
7 >> library
8 >> which I had to unmask, which then required another masked library. At
9 >> this
10 >> point I stopped, as it looked as though I was going to end up updating a
11 >> fairly large number of packages to unstable versions and I was worried
12 >> this
13 >> might break something else on my system.
14 >>
15 >> Any advice will be gratefully received.
16 >>
17 >> Alastair Irving
18 >>
19 >>
20 > All packages are masked until the last, which is "really" unstable. So
21 > you have to unmasked alot of packages if they depend on one which is
22 > probably unstable. There are some wiki articles about that, take a look.
23 >
24 >
25 I compile from source because I need 64bit.
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