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On 17/06/2014 01:53, walt wrote: |
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> I'm sick of building webkit-gtk. My oldest machine (a dual-core AMD64) has been |
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> building webkit for 6 hours and still going :( |
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> Can anyone answer a few questions for me, please? |
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> 1) Why do we not have a binary webkit package in portage, like libreoffice-bin, |
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> firefox-bin, thunderbird-bin, etc? |
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Probably because there isn't a downloadable upstream binary? |
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LO and firefox have -bin ebuilds precisely because upstream provides one |
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(which gets installed in the same fashion Windows does it - unpack a blob) |
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> 2) Why does webkit-gtk drag in ruby and several ruby gems? I've wasted hours |
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> trying to untangle conflicts between multiple ruby versions, which I need *only* |
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> because webkit-gtk drags them in. I have no other need for ruby. |
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/var/log/portage/net-libs:webkit-gtk-2.4.3:20140605-010132.log:/usr/bin/ruby20 |
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./Source/JavaScriptCore/offlineasm/generate_offset_extractor.rb |
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./Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.asm |
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DerivedSources/JavaScriptCore/LLIntDesiredOffsets.h |
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/var/log/portage/net-libs:webkit-gtk-2.4.3:20140605-010132.log:/usr/bin/ruby20 |
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./Source/JavaScriptCore/offlineasm/asm.rb |
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./Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.asm |
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Programs/LLIntOffsetsExtractor DerivedSources/JavaScriptCore/LLIntAssembly.h |
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/var/log/portage/net-libs:webkit-gtk-2.4.3:20140605-010132.log:/usr/bin/ruby20 |
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./Source/JavaScriptCore/offlineasm/generate_offset_extractor.rb |
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./Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.asm |
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DerivedSources/JavaScriptCore/LLIntDesiredOffsets.h |
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/var/log/portage/net-libs:webkit-gtk-2.4.3:20140605-010132.log:/usr/bin/ruby20 |
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./Source/JavaScriptCore/offlineasm/asm.rb |
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./Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.asm |
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Programs/LLIntOffsetsExtractor DerivedSources/JavaScriptCore/LLIntAssembly.h |
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As to why webkit-gtk does *that*, you'll have to ask upstream. |
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Personally I think it's simply because they can and apparently perl, |
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python are not enough scripting languages to have on a box. |
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> 3) Why does webkit-gtk have a "spell" useflag? Why does an html rendering |
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> engine need a spellcheck function? |
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Ever typed a post into a web forum? Ever seen the red squigly lines |
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underneath typos? That's why. |
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There's also HTML rendering in mailer apps |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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