Bug 19080

Summary:	Provision of net-www/mozilla-bin like net-www/phoenix-bin
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Narada Sage <narada.sage>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Narada Sage 2003-04-10 08:03:58 UTC

Hello.  Currently, in the portage tree there is phoenix-cvs (source) and
phoenix-bin (binary).  Similarly, I'd like to request that mozilla-bin (binary)
be provided along with mozilla (source).  Here are the attributes and benefits
that mozilla-bin would supply.

(1) instantaneous package installation as opposed to long compilation
(2) all inclusive suite without refinement of use flags and without excessive
dependencies
(3) swift comparison and opportunity to reproduce bugs of mozilla (source)
compilations on mozilla-bin
(4) absence of bugs produced as a result of ebuild

Binary packages are already abundant in packages such as openoffice, phoenix,
java sdk and ide suites and games and for the same reason mozilla and its users
are more than deserving of a quick extraction mozilla-bin package taken straight
from mozilla.org.  The link is supplied below for the latest version.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.3/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.3.tar.gz

I'd be very grateful if a such a package was provided and believe that this
concept goes a long way to increasing OS appeal for those without high
specification machines and plentiful time for compilation.  Many thanks.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Narada Sage 2003-04-10 08:06:12 UTC

Another advantage is that with a new release of mozilla the binary ebuild will make it into the stable tree quicker as it is less likely to suffer from issues.  And issues that it does have may be directed to the mozilla bugzilla.

Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-10 15:41:48 UTC

No, we rather want to get .tbz2's more updated and available then having to
resort to -bin packages ...

Comment 3 Narada Sage 2003-04-11 09:59:44 UTC

Okay.  Close if you wish.

Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-12 15:31:53 UTC

Ask around on the gentoo-dev mailing list about the GRP project for creating
binary packages ...