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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:00:06
Message-Id: 20200304205953.GA21266@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization? by n952162
1 On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 07:12:35PM +0100, n952162 wrote
2 > On 2020-03-04 17:14, Daniel Frey wrote:
3 > >
4 > > It will go away but allowing Firefox to self-update on Gentoo will get
5 > > you a very broken Firefox as the ebuilds have gone away from large
6 > > monolithic builds to linking to local system libraries. Not recommended!
7 > >
8 > > Dan
9 > >
10 >
11 > Ah, good point.  But I should be able to do the same thing from with
12 > "preference" somewhere, I suspect.
13
14 A Pale Moon user here. We get the same warnings about not building
15 Pale Moon with system libs (item 5
16 https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=20885 ). Since PM is a
17 Firefox fork, it inherits a lot of the same behaviour. I notice that
18 doing "emerge -pv firefox" shows the following default USE flags...
19
20 system-av1 system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent
21 system-libvpx system-sqlite system-webp
22
23 Over-riding them in package.use, that should prevent the problems.
24
25 --
26 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
27 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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