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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:14:51
Message-Id: bf30fc55-06b7-1750-dd2f-790fb85ca298@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization? by n952162
1 On 3/4/20 12:14 AM, n952162 wrote:
2 > Yes, you're right:
3 >
4 > 01~>cat /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/policies.json
5 > {
6 >   "policies": {
7 >     "DisableAppUpdate": true
8 >   }
9 > }
10 >
11 > The prediction is, if I were to remove that file, the banner would go
12 > away.  I'll try that at some point.
13 >
14 > Thank you.
15 >
16 >
17
18 It will go away but allowing Firefox to self-update on Gentoo will get
19 you a very broken Firefox as the ebuilds have gone away from large
20 monolithic builds to linking to local system libraries. Not recommended!
21
22 Dan

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