283806 - native linux rpm/deb packages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247293

(Firefox :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050224 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050224 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.1

If windows gets official native msi packages
then why not give Linux official rpm packages.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This is a dupe, of a number of bugs.

And an MSI for Windows is a whole different ballgame compared to RPMs for X
number of distros.  Considering that most distros do already provide their own
Firefox packages, I'm not sure this is really worth the effort it would take to
package N different RPMs, especially for each language that we provide official
builds for.