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On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:08:24AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote |
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> Is this for real or is it a mistake to be reverted soon? I do not |
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> enjoy the thought of rebuilding firefox twice in a row. |
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The USE flags seem to have been around for a while. I haven't updated |
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my desktop for a few weeks (I'll do it tomorrow). "emerge -pv firefox" |
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gives firefox-60.8.0 with... |
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[ebuild N ] www-client/firefox-60.8.0::gentoo USE="gmp-autoupdate screenshot -bindist -clang -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -dbus -debug -eme-free -geckodriver -hardened -hwaccel -jack (-neon) -pulseaudio (-selinux) -startup-notification -system-harfbuzz -system-icu -system-jpeg -system-libevent -system-libvpx -system-sqlite -test -wifi" |
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Notice all the "system-*" flags. I run Pale Moon, a Firefox fork. |
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The two programs have diverged over the years... but see Warning #5 |
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in post https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=20885 |
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> Don't use system libs. Seriously, just don't. The only known-good |
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> libs are those in our source tree; don't be fooled by it working |
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> on simple/small applications because we are not and the balance is |
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> very precarious when dealing with our size of code base organically |
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> grown over decades. |
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This might not apply to Firefox, but it probably does. APIs change |
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with versions. By using the internal libs, you know that Firefox will |
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be using the library versions it's expecting to see. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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