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On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:15:08AM +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I happened to notice that Firefox is having more and more USE flags for using |
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> system-side rather than bundled in libraries: |
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> However, such libraries are not enabled by default and FF will be downloading |
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> 177,578 KiB of sources. A couple of questions: |
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> - Will FF be downloading less if the system side USE flags are enabled? |
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As far as I can tell, the same tarball is downloaded no matter which |
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system-* USE flags you set. The ebuild tells the build system to use the |
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system stuff. |
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> - What are the benefits or disbenefits of enabling them? |
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Enabling the use of system libraries could make Firefox unstable, since |
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the FF developers may have patched the bundled libs. It will also save |
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compile time, although compared to FF itself, most of the libs that can |
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be prevented from bundling have short compile times. |
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For me, personally, disabling those USE flags and using bundled libs |
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represents some sort of idealogical loss since I view bundling libraries |
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as a cop out solution. This may or may not matter to you. |
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Alec |
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