Re: firefox2 in pkgsrc?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:36:59 +0200, Geert Hendrickx <ghen%NetBSD.org@localhost>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Firefox is approaching its 2.0 release.  I've been tracking the beta's and
> RC's in pkgsrc-wip/firefox2 (and -gtk and -bin).  They seem to work fine on
> i386, but people have reported build problems on other platforms like amd64.
> When 2.0 is released, shall I update the www/firefox package to it, or shall
> I import it as a separate firefox2 package in parallel until the build
> problems are fixed?
> 
I would be *very* leary of replacing the current Firefox release for at
least several months after 2.0 comes out.  In other words, go for the
firefox2 approach. 


                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb