[Novalug] Firefox versioning

[Bryan J. Smith]

Actually, the approach has merits.


In the Fedora/Red Hat world, the version is appended as the base
package name in the cases of "tech previews."
 
----- Original Message ----

From: Richard Ertel <richard.ertel at gmail.com>

@Dan: that *is* what i said when i suggested installing the
'firefox-3.5' package. the point is, the 'firefox' package and the
'firefox-3.5' package contain different versions (obviously, hence the
need for -3.5, right?). most users don't know that package exists.
they only know that they are "stuck" (for all they know) with firefox
3.0.x

this is one of my gripes with Ubuntu, and why i wish that Arch was
easier to get configured quickly. or maybe i just want a
rolling-release Ubuntu...