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150802 Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 02 Aug 2015 07:52:02 Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> Today, did the same emerge without any problem : |
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>> my bookmarks remain the same, as does my start-up ("home") site. |
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>> From the discussion, it appears that your difficulties |
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>> resulted from your use of a developer version of FF, |
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>> but how you come to be using it is not clear. |
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> USE="bindist" emerges the Aurora as opposed to Firefox ESR |
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> and this is what is causing the problem. |
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> You evidently do not have bindist set for FF |
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> and therefore have not experienced this profile related problem. |
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That's the benefit of starting make.conf USE with '-*' (wry grin) : |
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yes, I know what the pundits say, but it works if you're attentive. |
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Acc to 'euses bindist' : |
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"www-client/firefox:bindist |
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- Disable official Firefox branding (icons, name) |
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which are not binary-redistributable according to upstream". |
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It doesn't say anything re Aurora/ESR (whatever they are) |
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nor re a developer version of Firefox. Perhaps a Gentoo bug ? |
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