Thanks for such a detailed answer! OK, the miracle did not happen, and I'll have to use a clean chroot :) Thanks for providing references to right tools for that!
> sure, if parabola users want that - i do not understand the motivation though > - > what is the value of moving the user config directory? - why would anyone care > which directory is used? - that directory is extremely brittle, and should > never be touched by the user This is just about aesthetics of not having many dotfiles in home directory :) Although mozilla configs are not intended to be changed manually (maybe except stuff like userChrome.css), a one might not want to have such a "useless" directory in home. Many people ignore that, but some (definitely not only me) become frustrated. > that work is ever finished - mozilla is the most difficult software to > maintain > of any parabola package, and has the most complicated PKGBUILD of any parabola > package - it is perhaps the most complicated PKGBUILD of any PKGBUILD anywhere > > every major release requires dependency tweaks - that is why upstreams such as > mozilla tend to vendor everything but the kitchen sink; but even that is not > sufficient for most releases; because the mozilla devs target LTS distros such > as ubuntu and fedora - maintaining mozilla software on a rolling distro is a > never-ending challenge Ah, I get it now. I'll try to play with this PKBUILD a bit, but not sure if such attempts of enhancements succeed. If there are some results worth mentioning, I'll let you know. -- Daniil Kovalev _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
