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Announcing Faster, Lighter Firefox Downloads for Linux with .tar.xz Packaging! (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I think the "etc" shows how f***ed up it might be to package for every single distro. Releasing a tar with no extra bloat and letting each community doing its own things over it is probably one of the best approaches?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    But it makes finding a properly functioning official package more difficult for newer users, and really the etc. was superfluous. You only really need .deb, .rpm, and whatever arch uses. There is a flatpak, but it doesn't work properly.

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