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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by markstos on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:09PM (#22023060)
Complex apps can bundle their own dependencies-- that's what the Flatpak and Snap package formats do. You can also run Firefox in a Docker or LXD container with it's dependencies. By sharing the X11 or Wayland socket with the docker, the apps can appear on your main desktop.
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by jackhalford on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:13PM (#22023092)
none of those solutions apply the BSDs though
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by LeoPanthera on Saturday January 11, 2020 @07:53PM (#22023586)
Can you run graphical applications inside a BSD jail?
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by beefhash on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:31AM (#22025779)
Pedantic note: Jails are not a BSD concept, they're a FreeBSD concept. OpenBSD has no notion of jails.
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by dddddaviddddd on Sunday January 12, 2020 @09:51AM (#22026497)
Yes. Here's an example for Firefox on FreeBSD: https://wiki.freebsd.org/VladimirKrstulja/Guides/JailingGUIA...
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by napsterbr on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:56PM (#22023909)
You can with SSH and X11 forwarding. Whether that's practical is a different question and may vary according to the application and user
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by toast0 on Saturday January 11, 2020 @09:17PM (#22023995)
You wouldn't need to use SSH, just linking/bind mounting the X socket and xauth into the jail (plus/minus whatever shm stuff).
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by markstos on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:18PM (#22023114)
True.
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by fao_ on Saturday January 11, 2020 @09:45PM (#22024118)
Yes, and it sounds ideal but I've had a recurring problem where having snap installed on a system increases the boot time, and apps hang on load. They stop hanging when I install the native app, and use that instead.
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by ric2b on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:56AM (#22137309)
IIRC that's because Snap's are stored compressed and have to be uncompressed when you first run them after boot.

I think that's because Snap is also meant to be used in IOT where disk space is limited but it definitely should be optional on work machines with lots of disk space.

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