[Bug 383484] Re: search engine plugins missing in firefox-3.5 packages

[Ken Arnold]

This is partially a bug in firefox-3.0 also: it puts files directly in
common directories (/usr/lib/firefox-addons) and symlinks in the
version-specific directories (/usr/lib/firefox-3.*). So if the
firefox-3.5 were to provide those files also, they would conflict with
firefox-3.0 files.

To make the two packages peacefully coexist without being mutually
dependent, the situation should be reversed: install the search plugins
in the version-specific directories, and if necessary, use the
alternatives mechanism to manage a symlink from the common directory.

The same situation applies for the /usr/bin/firefox (no version)
symlink.

(I've also resolved the issue on my system using an approach like
comment #15 (by Bubbels).)

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