Comment 1662 for bug 1

Hi :)
It doesn't really work out that way.  Mostly every distro fits neatly into 1 of about 8 main families and even different families only have minor differences between the way they do things.

With package management there are only about 4 main different ways.  If you look at one good example, Adobe Reader
http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
The top drop-down shows, for;
* Windows, 7 different downloads.  One for each of 7, Vista, Xp and so on
* Mac, 4 different downloads
* Linux, 1, well 4 when you look at the bottom drop-down but of those 1 is deb and another is a tarball so that is just 1 really
* Solaris, 2
* Android, 1

So it's really not the case that there needs to be hundreds for Gnu&Linux even tho that is often used as the excuse for not even offering 1.

If hardware manufacturers didn't mind producing 1 OpenSource driver then it would cover all the different Gnu&Linux families, Solaris, Android, Bsd and Macs.  Plus being OpenSource would mean that it could be updated faster if malware exploits were found.

So the simple answer to "Do we really need a Firefox package for every distribution?" is No.  And at the moment we don't have a separate package for each one anyway.

Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Sun, 8/4/12, Faldegast <email address hidden> wrote:

I don't really think it is impossible to gather all that under one roof. However I tend to think that perhaps we have to much in the distributions. Do we really need a Firefox package for every distribution?

A common packaging of common apps should simplify a lot.

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