Why do I get Aurora when emerging Firefox?

philip · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden

I have emerged Firefox. But my application is named Aurora. Why is that?
Aurora seems to be a beta version of Firefox. I have no entires in /etc/portage/package.unmask or
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords that would allow an unstable version of Firefox

# emerge --search firefox
Searching...
[ Results for search key : firefox ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]

* www-client/firefox
Latest version available: 31.3.0
Latest version installed: 31.3.0
Size of files: 144,558 KiB
Homepage: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
Description: Firefox Web Browser
License: MPL-2.0 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 8:10 pm Post subject:

philip,

Do you have the bindist USE flag set?
The builds using the Firefox name may not legally be distributed - even on your own LAN.

The bindist USE flag builds firefox in a way that makes it legal to distribute the binary. That includes changing the name.
e.g. Debian has iceweasel but its still Firefox.
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philip · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden

Thanks,

I guess that implies I should use www-client/firefox-bin (with the bindist flag set) , not www-client/firefox?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 4:57 pm Post subject:

philip,

The bin is built for you. If it uses firefox branding, it will be built by Mozilla.
If you want the firefox branding and to build it yourself, set USE=-bindist
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

philip · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden

Thansk NeddySeagoon,

I got it
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