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
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