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On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:59:53 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 07:12:35PM +0100, n952162 wrote |
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> > On 2020-03-04 17:14, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> > > It will go away but allowing Firefox to self-update on Gentoo will get |
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> > > you a very broken Firefox as the ebuilds have gone away from large |
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> > > monolithic builds to linking to local system libraries. Not recommended! |
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> > > |
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> > > Dan |
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> > Ah, good point. But I should be able to do the same thing from with |
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> > "preference" somewhere, I suspect. |
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> A Pale Moon user here. We get the same warnings about not building |
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> Pale Moon with system libs (item 5 |
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> https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=20885 ). Since PM is a |
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> Firefox fork, it inherits a lot of the same behaviour. I notice that |
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> doing "emerge -pv firefox" shows the following default USE flags... |
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> system-av1 system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent |
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> system-libvpx system-sqlite system-webp |
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> Over-riding them in package.use, that should prevent the problems. |
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I haven't yet given Palemoon a spin and consequently have no experience of it. |
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How does it compare to FF? I am curious as to security and performance |
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comparisons. |
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What is the recommended way to install in Gentoo? I noticed the palemoon |
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overlay has ebuilds for source and binary options. Would they differ in |
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performance terms on an old AMD powered laptop? |
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