[aur-general] Please remove firefox-bin

Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.talk at gmail.com
Sun Mar 27 11:09:37 EDT 2011


On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Det <nimetonmaili at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/27/11, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> i do prefer to have them in aur, but the maintainer should follow
>> firefox-bin as stable, firebox-beta-bin as beta.
>>
>> now there isn't any beta version available and it should be updated to
>> stable.
>
> Firefox-beta-bin has actually already been updated to 4.0.
>
>> is fine like it is now.
>
> The only difference between 'firefox-bin' and [extra]'s 'firefox' is
> that 'firefox-bin' is built by the Mozilla guys.
>
> But if you think that's enough, then I'm fine with it.
>
>   Det
>
That's typically the case for '*-bin' packages. Useful because some
projects ask that you use the pre-compiled packages from their site
first when submitting bug reports. Among other things.


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