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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by Carpetsmoker on Sunday January 12, 2020 @08:52AM (#22026258)
The problem isn't so much that Debian packages or the ecosystem "breaks" as such, but that you run in to bugs (sometimes already fixed ones), and that you're then basically stuck with that unless you, the maintainer, or someone else decides to backport the fix, and they frequently don't get backported especially not for "minor" bugs.
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday January 12, 2020 @12:48PM (#22027707)
Just compile it yourself and put it in /usr/local.
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by Carpetsmoker on Monday January 13, 2020 @04:50PM (#22039092)
Well, yeah, but that's bypassing the package manager. You can say that in response to pretty much every argument about "I don't like package manager X because Y".
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by useragent86 on Saturday January 18, 2020 @05:11PM (#22087655)
Use "checkinstall" instead of "make install". It builds and installs packages automatically.
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