Firefox 2.0 parallel install

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Gawain Lynch schrieb:
> On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 12:21 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Gawain Lynch schrieb:
>>> For those of us that want to use Firefox 2 to browse on FC6
>>> without having to rebuild half of the system, I have *hacked* up
>>> a quick solution that allows a parallel install of FF2 along side
>>> FC6's 1.5x. It is a buildit it yourself deal and you will need
>>> the bits at 
>>> http://members.iinet.net.au/~gawain/firefox2-SRPM-bits.tar.bz2 as
>>> well as Christopher's SRPM from
>>> http://people.redhat.com/caillon/RPMS/fc7/ to make it all happen.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If there is interest I will update this for FF2 final on the
>>> 24th.
>> Well, if - it really doesn't conflict with the base package and
>> it's files - FF2 definitely won't go into FC6 as a update then why
>> not put your FF2 in Fedora Extras 6?
> Happy to, are you offering sponsorship ;-)

Ask me again after you put up a package up for review. In case no one is
else is interested in reviewing your package or sponsoring you I might
consider it ;)

Anyway:

Gawain Lynch schrieb:
> On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 12:28 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 12:21 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> Well, if - it really doesn't conflict with the base package and
>>> it's files - FF2 definitely won't go into FC6 as a update then
>>> why not put your FF2 in Fedora Extras 6?
>> I doubt it. FF2 might break core GNOME components, (such as
>> Epiphany) which is against the Extra guide-lines.
> 
> It should not rock the boat as it leaves Firsfox 1.5.x in place.  The
>  package is called firefox2 and installs something like:
> 
> /usr/lib/firefox2-2.0/* 
> /etc/gre.d/gre2.conf
> /usr/bin/firefox2
> /usr/share/applications/mozilla-firefox2.desktop 
> /usr/share/pixmaps/firefox2.png

What about the users setting? It might get a bit problematic if both use
~/.mozilla/firefox ...

CU
thl