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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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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. |
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I don't find any GLSA on firefox-1.0.6. Even the official firefox release |
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notes doesn't list any security fixes. |
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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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Erhm.. I don't know how in the world you could be seeing this kind of |
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behavior while compiling firefox... |
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Anyways, you're just so wrong here, Holly (and Benno is right). Don't you |
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understand the concept of compiling? When something is being compiled |
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*nothing* gets installed during that time, and so it couldn't interfere |
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with your current installation. The program gets installed only after |
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compiling has finished. |
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make && make install, you know... or do you? |
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T.G. |
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