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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FF increasingly being bundled up
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 11:26:45
Message-Id: 560FBB6D.1040606@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] FF increasingly being bundled up by Alec Ten Harmsel
1 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
2 > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:15:08AM +0100, Mick wrote:
3 >> Hi All,
4 >>
5 >> I happened to notice that Firefox is having more and more USE flags for using
6 >> system-side rather than bundled in libraries:
7 >>
8 >> ...
9 >>
10 >> However, such libraries are not enabled by default and FF will be downloading
11 >> 177,578 KiB of sources. A couple of questions:
12 >>
13 >> - Will FF be downloading less if the system side USE flags are enabled?
14 > As far as I can tell, the same tarball is downloaded no matter which
15 > system-* USE flags you set. The ebuild tells the build system to use the
16 > system stuff.
17 >
18 >
19 > Alec
20 >
21 >
22
23
24 That's true. Regardless of USE flags, same tarball. I don't recall
25 ever seeing USE flags affect the size of the tarball unless it is a
26 binary which likely doesn't have USE flags anyway.
27
28 Dale
29
30 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] FF increasingly being bundled up Bryan Gardiner <bog@××××××.net>