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Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 12/17/2014 04:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> >> Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? |
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> > Depends on your needs: |
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> > firefox: |
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> > - pro: you get all the USE flags |
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> > - pro: you don't get bundled libs from Mozilla, the ebuild can use |
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> > system libs |
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> > - pro: the compiled binaries are integrated into gentoo like other ebuilds |
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> > - con: slow compiles. I have 8 i7 cores and 16G. the merge takes 20-35 |
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> > minutes... |
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> Really? 20-35 minutes? I have 6 cores and 32G, and firefox only takes 10 |
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> minutes. Do you have PORTAGE_TMPDIR mounted on tmpfs? |
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> Alec |
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Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage |
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because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain |
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packages. But Linux is pretty good at disk caching, so I wonder if that |
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is it? |
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-- |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |
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