Randy McMurchy wrote:

> I will play with developing a wrapper script to put in /usr/bin so
> that it calls /opt/firefox/firefox appropriately (depending
> on if it is called with a URL or new-tab URL.
> 
> I suggest Archaic's method of building Firefox be implemented into
> BLFS immediately. The only downside I can see to this is that it
> must be installed into /opt. Of course, it could be installed into
> /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6, but this really wouldn't be appropriate.
> 
> For me, installing into opt is a good thing, as it allows for an
> updated version to be installed side-by-side with the existing
> one and simply point the /opt/firefox symlink to
> /opt/firefox-1.0.7 when you update.

I like putting things into /opt too, but there have been several
comments about putting things into /usr/bin for other packages.  For
example, xorg (from /usr/X11R6), qt (from /opt), and kde (from /opt).

Do we need to discuss the options and give users the choice?

  -- Bruce
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