On 12/06/2013 01:09 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dan McGhee wrote: > >> Is it possible to satisfy those >> desires by having only one "Mozilla" section? Then all or one could be >> built. Oh, I forgot, that includes SeaMonkey too--and the calendar >> whose name I have forgotten. > The mozilla apps can be divided up in a number of ways. I do use > seamonkey, so why would I want to build FF or TB? (Actually I do build > them for the book's purposes). The only reason I can see to build > Xulrunner is to save a little time if building both FF and TB, but that > runs into issues if trying to upgrade one and not the other. Yes, precisely. If I correctly do my math in my head there are 43 combinations of those minus all combinations involving SeaMonkey--unless someone builds for the book. :) And I agree with the maintenance statement--especially since Mozilla does nightly builds--now, Dan let's not go over board. >> As soon as Xulrunner finishes cooking and I get a Firefox build up and >> running, I'm going to try the Thunderbird thing. I need to recompile it >> anyway because I didn't build it against a system NSS. > Any input is appreciated, but whether it makes it into the book would be > a matter for more discussion. There are multiple ways to accomplish a > task in a lot of cases. Whether a new method provides enough additional > benefits needs to be evaluated against both the utility and the > maintenance effort. > > -- Bruce > > I'm not suggesting any changes to the book. I was asking a question. And you're right about the time savings. I like FF and TB, but if I could get it done in one 50+ SBU build, that would be great. And I sure do appreciate "work-benefit" analyses.
And I will present my results for use in any way. I need to finish my UEFI write up for LFS first, but needed to get both e-mail and browser working in the same partition for convenience sake. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
