Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust??

[Danny YUE]

On 2017-06-22 07:43, Rasmus Thomsen <Rasmus.thomsen@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> I'm using firefox-bin ( and libreoffice-bin ) on my laptop and I didn't have problems with either of them
>
> Regards,
> Rasmus
> -------- Original Message --------
> On 22 Jun 2017, 09:34, Danny YUE wrote:
>
> On 2017-06-22 07:23, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov  wrote:
>>> Does anyone knows why? Any idea?
>> The reason is in that fact, that many of it's components are in rust.
>> And since it was possible to dodge it until now, maintainers considered it is
>> not a way since now.
>>
>> And, by the way, it is not that many time to build rust, as you think:
>>> Thu Jun 22 12:34:00 2017 >>> dev-lang/rust-1.16.0
>>> merge time: 1 hour, 48 minutes.
>> Than was on 1.9GHz with hardly limited portage (MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l2",
>> NICENESS=18, ionice -c3, and cgroupped on cpu shares and ram).
>>
>> So, ~20 mins would be enough on non-limited portage and full power of that i7.
>
> Thank you all for replying.
>
> So it can be around 30~40 minutes or so on my i5 machine.
> Just it feels strange to install something large that I would probably
> never use myself.
>
> I am considering using binary package instead of compiling it myself.
>
> But I am afraid that using firefox-bin package would cause some
> dependency problem. I once tried libreoffice-bin, but found it really
> painful to resolve dependency issues during system upgrading.
>
> Anyone tried firefox-bin smoothly?
>
> Danny
> @mva.name>

Well, I ran into the same problem with libreoffice-bin *last time*, as
Alexey.

It seems that version number of libreoffice-bin is always smaller than
libreoffice. So dependency issue is always a problem with it.

I noticed firefox-bin only has *usual* packages as dependencies...
By the way what is the difference between compiled and binary firefox
from a user's perspective?

P.S. Someone told me that people in this list do not like top-posting.

Thanks.
Danny