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Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 02 Feb 2017 03:19:24 Dale wrote: |
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>> I been using system libs since just before my first post. So far, it's |
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>> working pretty well. No crashes or anything. I also upgraded Firefox |
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>> the other day when it did its release. It built and seems to be running |
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>> fine. When it breaks or stops working right, I'll try switching back. |
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>> Thanks to all for the replies. I was curious what others were doing. |
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>> It seems others use both ways for differing reasons. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Other than security implications of older libs being built in with default USE |
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> flags, is there some performance or emerge time benefit/disbenefit from using |
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> system-libs? |
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Keeping in mind that I build more than one package at a time when |
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updating, I don't see much difference in build time. It takes roughly a |
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hour each time. This is the last few build times with version. |
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Sun Dec 4 21:40:15 2016 >>> www-client/firefox-50.0.2 |
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merge time: 41 minutes and 23 seconds. |
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Wed Dec 14 22:30:20 2016 >>> www-client/firefox-50.1.0 |
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merge time: 53 minutes and 43 seconds. |
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Sun Jan 8 20:38:09 2017 >>> www-client/firefox-50.1.0-r1 |
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merge time: 1 hour, 9 minutes and 3 seconds. |
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Wed Jan 18 17:35:08 2017 >>> www-client/firefox-50.1.0-r1 |
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merge time: 1 hour, 2 minutes and 23 seconds. |
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Sun Jan 29 20:29:58 2017 >>> www-client/firefox-51.0 |
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merge time: 57 minutes and 24 seconds. |
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The 41 minutes with Firefox building was before the switch. Odds are, |
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it was building while nothing else was using CPU time. The others are |
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within 10 to 15 minutes of each other. I looked at some older build |
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times, pretty much the same. Based on that, I don't see any difference. |
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As to being outdated at times, there are times I hold off on Firefox |
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because of plugin issues. I've been known to hold off on Firefox for |
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weeks at times. I don't recall holding off on system lib updates. |
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While being outdated at times is possible, it likely isn't any more |
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likely than anything else. I figure being able to run the latest |
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Firefox would be a better option but I need my plugins to work. |
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On performance, I can't tell any difference. I had a couple random |
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crashes before switching and since the switch, none of those. I didn't |
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lose any data from the crash but still like it to be stable. Basically, |
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it's the same. |
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Other than no longer crashing at times now, not much difference really. |
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I don't know for sure that using system libs is what fixed it either. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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