packaging thunderbird and firefox extensions as RPM in Fedora

[Dan Young]

Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> writes:
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>> 3.0.  There's no maintainable way to make it work now without querying
>> RPM in %post and requiring triggers.
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> Why is firefox packaged in such a broken way (versioned dirs under
> /usr/lib)? I do not see any sense for such a layout on an rpm managed
> system.
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> Alternatively, why not create a
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> | /usr/lib*/firefox-<version>/extensions -> /usr/lib*/firefox/extensions
> 
> symlink and place extensions into the unversioned dir?

FWIW, strace says firefox does stat /usr/lib/firefox/extensions/ on startup.

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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
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