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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Palemoon again - again
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:59:30
Message-Id: 20170420215913.GA28261@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Palemoon again - again by Peter Humphrey
1 On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:06:12AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote
2 > On Monday 17 Apr 2017 13:05:59 Walter Dnes wrote:
3 > >
4 > > 2) USE="-system-libs" is recommended. Yes, this does make the binary
5 > > slightly larger. But it avoids problems where changing API/ABI in the
6 > > system lib causes subtle problems for the program. It may also reduce
7 > > dependancies pulled in, depending on what your other programs have
8 > > pulled in.
9 >
10 > I don't see any of those USE flags. This is from the octopus overlay:
11 >
12 > [ebuild R ~] www-client/palemoon-27.2.1::octopus USE="alsa dbus
13 > ffmpeg gtk2 official-branding optimize printing speech spell wave webm
14 > -devtools -gtk3 -jemalloc -necko-wifi -pulseaudio -shared-js
15 > -strip-binaries -system-cairo -system-compress -system-images
16 > -system-libevent -system-pixman -system-spell -system-sqlite -system-vpx
17 > -valgrind -webrtc" 0 KiB
18
19 That ebuild does things differently. The other palemoon ebuild was
20 all-or-nothing for a bunch of system libs. The octopus ebuild is
21 granular, allowing separate choices for system-cairo system-compress
22 system-images system-libevent system-pixman system-spell system-sqlite
23 and system-vpx.
24
25 --
26 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
27 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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