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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They plan on doing that change since over a year lol

And their build docs are incredibly confusing, I have no idea how distro packagers can do this.

I built Firefox from source for a while, and it just broke after a while.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing someone figured it out once, and everyone just copies from them...

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean they have some form of docs, and I got it to build. But hell even installing mercurial is totally weird.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Btw, you can see the build flags your distro uses from within FF, I think it is about:build