On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:44:41AM +0000, Duncan wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger posted on Thu, 01 May 2014 13:53:21 +0200 as excerpted: > > >> […] But I did experiment a bit with the large-icons switcher, and > >> have a large aurora icon here. (I have the bindist flag on so get > >> the generic aurora name and icons, not the firefox branding.) > > > > Aurora is the not-yet-published beta, innit? I suppose then you’re using > > an out-of-tree ebuild, because it’s not in portage and you’re speaking > > of use flags. > > In terms of firefox upstream, mozilla, yes, aurora is beta (or is it > alpha?, it's pre-release, anyway). > > But that's not what aurora is in gentoo. In gentoo, it has to do with > the bindist flag, since for trademark protection reasons, mozilla does > not allow distributors to call patched versions firefox, unless they get > official mozilla pre-approval for their patches.
Now I see what I did wrong in thinking – I’m using the precompiled version, not the source version. And that one doesn’t have the bindist flag. > […] > > <grumble -- not directed at you> People wonder why my posts are so long. > It's because almost invariably whenever I try to be brief, I end up > posting the long explanation I had omitted in the original post in the > interest of brevity, anyway! Hm... funnily enough, even though you are aware of the length of your posts, your next three paragraphs about why *you* use either version of Fx have nothing to do with *this* topic or mail which was only about the *meaning* of “Aurora” and its appearance in portage. So semantically, they *could* have been omitted. ;-) > So for the most part I've given up trying to be brief. If people > don't like my style they always have the right to killfile me! > </grumble> Well, sometimes you might have valuable information in them, but those are buried under half a dozen paragraphs for which people have no time if they’re catching up un hundreds of messages from various mailing list. Why not do a short and to-the-point answer first and then, following current Intertubes style, write "TL;DR" and the rest below that. But let’s not speak of it anymore in this thread, it’s already off-topic as it is. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. Windows is great! You can download Linux with it.
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