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Am 01.02.2013 03:41, schrieb Philip Webb: |
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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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What about not using the local overlay and simply do emerge --nodeps |
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firefox and see what happens? I know, crude.... but simple :) |