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On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 01:05:30AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote |
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> I have another idea. We already have firefox-bin and libreoffice-bin |
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> ebuilds where the compiled tarball is pulled down from upstream, and |
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> untarred. Would this work on Pale Moon? I guess it comes down to |
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> whether or not python 2.7 is a run-time dependancy as well as a build |
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> time dependency. I'll ask on the Pale Moon forum. |
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I checked, and it looks like python 2.7 is build-time dependency only. |
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Pale Moon will *RUN* just fine without python. Runtime system |
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requirements according to http://linux.palemoon.org/download/mainline/ |
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* A modern Linux distribution. The browser may not work well on old or |
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LTS releases of Linux. |
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* A modern processor (must have SSE2 support as the absolute minimum). |
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* 1GB of RAM (2GB or more recommended for heavy use). |
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* GTK+ v2.24 |
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* GLib 2.22 or higher |
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* Pango 1.14 or higher |
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* libstdc++ 4.6.1 or higher |
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So a "palemoon-bin" ebuild is possible. But is it necessary? If you |
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pull down and extract the precompiled tarball to your home dir, it can |
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be set to check for, and do, updates (as long as you have write |
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permission to the Pale Moon directory). No need for portage to do it. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |