On Sunday 02 Aug 2015 05:20:21 »Q« wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 22:46:40 +0300
> 
> Emre Eryilmaz <emre.eryil...@piesso.com> wrote:
> > 2015-07-30 21:23 GMT+03:00 Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de>:
> > > Over the course of the last 24 hours, Firefox 38.1.0 became stable
> > > in portage, so I merged it in.
> > > 
> > > What a mistake!
> > 
> > It's a firefox profile problems. No data loss. Because aurora goes
> > firefox developer edition and firefox developer edition has a new
> > firefox profile. Its solutions:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555416#c5
> 
> I'm confused by all this.  Why should the bindist USE flag control
> whether Firefox ESR or Firefox aurora/developer gets built?  Will
> Firefox ESR no longer compile with the option
>  --disable-official-branding ? 

There is no "--disable-official-branding" here:

     Installed versions:  38.1.0^d(09:32:07 07/31/15)(dbus gmp-autoupdate 
jemalloc3 jit minimal pulseaudio startup-notification -bindist -custom-cflags 
-custom-optimization -debug -egl -gstreamer -gstreamer-0 -hardened -neon -pgo 
-selinux -system-cairo -system-icu -system-jpeg -system-libvpx -system-sqlite 
-test -wifi LINGUAS="en_GB -af -ar -as -ast -be -bg -bn_BD -bn_IN -br -bs -ca 
-cs -cy -da -de -el -en_ZA -eo -es_AR -es_CL -es_ES -es_MX -et -eu -fa -fi -fr 
-fy_NL -ga_IE -gd -gl -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -hy_AM -id -is -it -ja -kk -km 
-kn -ko -lt -lv -mai -mk -ml -mr -nb_NO -nl -nn_NO -or -pa_IN -pl -pt_BR -
pt_PT -rm -ro -ru -si -sk -sl -son -sq -sr -sv_SE -ta -te -th -tr -uk -vi -xh 
-zh_CN -zh_TW")


>  Or does --disable-official-branding now
> produce an ESR version that behaves like a developer version WRT
> profiles?  (If the answer to that last question is "yes", then ISTM
> this is an upstream bug.)

The USE flag in question is bindist.  Without it you get FF ESR and all works 
as before.  With it set you get the new developer profile and you have to 
deselect it *each time* if you want your old profile back.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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