Firefox 2.0 parallel install

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 20:31 +1000, Gawain Lynch wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 12:28 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 12:21 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > 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
> 
... If you can get it included into -extra, I'm all for it.
Why not propose it in -extra ML?

- Gilboa