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On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:21:25PM -0700, Penguin Lover lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com squawked: |
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> > Well, I recently switched to the binary version and to my surprise I |
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> > found that it is much faster than the self compiled version. Especially |
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> > the interface is much more responsive in the binary version. I don't know |
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> > how it could be. Makes me really wonder where else I'm loosing speed on |
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> > Gentoo... |
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> How did you "switch to a binary version?" How did you do that? I didn't know |
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> you could use emerge and not compile it. Unless, of course, you aren't using |
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> emerge... |
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[12:29 AM]wwong ~ $ emerge search mozilla-firefox-bin |
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Searching... |
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[ Results for search key : mozilla-firefox-bin ] |
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[ Applications found : 1 ] |
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* www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin |
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Latest version available: 1.0.8 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of downloaded files: 24,192 kB |
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Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox |
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Description: Firefox Web Browser |
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License: MPL-1.1 NPL-1.1 |
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In fact, for lots of large packages there are binary/precompiled versions |
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available in portage, usually with the -bin suffix. |
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W |
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I remember walking to school through the snow, |
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uphill both ways, in my bare feet. Oh, now wait... |
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never mind, that was my father. |
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Sortir en Pantoufles: up 173 days, 20:56 |
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