Sven Köhler schreef: > Hi, > > i just installed mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9. So when i start it, it says > "hooray, you've got Deer Park Alpha 2 installed! Thank you, for > helping us testing". > > So what is Deer Park? What's the difference to a normal FireFox 1.5? > > Or the main question is: Why does that gentoo-ebuild install Deer > Park, and not just plain FireFox? > > > Thanks Sven > Deer Park is the codename for Firefox 1.5 while it was in development.
According to this thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2934098-highlight-.html#2931694 on the forums, the reason that Firefox you install under Gentoo is not allowed to be called "Firefox" is that only official builds from Mozilla.org may use the --official_branding configuration flag that names the titlebars and whatnot. Builds you (or the dev team) built from source are not official, so therefore may not use this ./configure flag. However, you are free to copy the ebuild to your overlay, add the flag to the ebuild, and then recompile it. Instructions can be found in the thread. As far as I know, the application built is the final, but it appears that the release was released early since rc3 was so stable. Maybe a few typos slipped through. I certainly don't remember seeing such a message when I started Firefox 1.5 for the first time, but maybe that's because it was an upgrade or something. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
