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Re: about "www/firefox"



Dear Thomas and Nia,

Thank you, I now find it.

Daisuke

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 21:03, nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 08:30:08AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Besides what Thomas said:
> >
> >   pkgsrc is generally developed with the rest of packages  up to date.
> >
> >   Updating the sources of one package and trying to build it is
> >   basically a wrong thing to do.   Always use a consistent pkgsrc tree
> >   (unless you know enough to work around problems without asking for
> >   help, reverting to consistent as the firsr step).
> >
> >   Building a package from an updated tree when installed packages are
> >   out of date is asking for trouble because you are operating in a way
> >   that most developers do not.
>
> In firefox the BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS have historically tended to be
> maintained and kept up to date.


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