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On 1/31/2013 20:41, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> Firefox 17.0.2 requires alsa-lib , which I don't want as I don't use sound; |
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> this is still the case with USE="-alsa". |
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> I want to test what happens if I try to compile it without that dep, |
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> so I copied the ebuild to /var/lib/layman/local/www-client/firefox/ |
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> & commented the relevant line to remove the RDEPEND. |
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> When I then tried 'ebuild <newpkgname>...ebuild manifest', |
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> it started to download xillions of little .xpi files into distfiles , |
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> apparently 1 for each of the World's many languages |
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> (this didn't happen at my last 'eix-sync'). |
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> Can anyone suggest a way to avoid this problem ? |
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It's downloading those files so it can recalculate the file hashes. When |
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running `ebuild <file> digest`, it has to have all possible files |
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available in order to update the Manifest file. |
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Those languages won't be installed when you actually install your |
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modified package. You'll probably want to keep them around until you're |
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finished making changes, though. |
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♫Dustin |
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