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On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 06:26:37AM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:15:08AM +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> >> Hi All, |
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> >> |
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> >> I happened to notice that Firefox is having more and more USE flags for using |
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> >> system-side rather than bundled in libraries: |
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> >> ... |
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> >> |
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> >> However, such libraries are not enabled by default and FF will be downloading |
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> >> 177,578 KiB of sources. A couple of questions: |
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> >> |
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> >> - Will FF be downloading less if the system side USE flags are enabled? |
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> > As far as I can tell, the same tarball is downloaded no matter which |
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> > system-* USE flags you set. The ebuild tells the build system to use the |
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> > system stuff. |
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> That's true. Regardless of USE flags, same tarball. I don't recall |
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> ever seeing USE flags affect the size of the tarball unless it is a |
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> binary which likely doesn't have USE flags anyway. |
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"emerge -pf" shows what distfiles are required and takes USE flags |
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into account, if you want to check for yourself. |
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Cheers, |
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Bryan |
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