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Last time I used libreoffice-bin and firefox-bin, first was really hard |
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to satisfy dependencies (I was needed some packages to downgrade to old |
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versions incompatible to other packages in my system). But with |
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firefox-bin a had no such problem. |
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But it was "last time". |
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On 06/22/2017 10:34 AM, Danny YUE wrote: |
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> On 2017-06-22 07:23, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <mva@×××.name> wrote: |
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>>> Does anyone knows why? Any idea? |
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>> The reason is in that fact, that many of it's components are in rust. |
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>> And since it was possible to dodge it until now, maintainers considered it is |
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>> not a way since now. |
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>> And, by the way, it is not that many time to build rust, as you think: |
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>>> Thu Jun 22 12:34:00 2017 >>> dev-lang/rust-1.16.0 |
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>>> merge time: 1 hour, 48 minutes. |
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>> Than was on 1.9GHz with hardly limited portage (MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l2", |
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>> NICENESS=18, ionice -c3, and cgroupped on cpu shares and ram). |
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>> So, ~20 mins would be enough on non-limited portage and full power of that i7. |
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> Thank you all for replying. |
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> So it can be around 30~40 minutes or so on my i5 machine. |
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> Just it feels strange to install something large that I would probably |
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> never use myself. |
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> I am considering using binary package instead of compiling it myself. |
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> But I am afraid that using firefox-bin package would cause some |
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> dependency problem. I once tried libreoffice-bin, but found it really |
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> painful to resolve dependency issues during system upgrading. |
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> Anyone tried firefox-bin smoothly? |
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> Danny |
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Kind regards, |
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Alexey Eschenko |
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https://skobk.in/ |
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