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.

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Daniil Kovalev
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