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Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: |
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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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> Alec |
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That's true. Regardless of USE flags, same tarball. I don't recall |
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ever seeing USE flags affect the size of the tarball unless it is a |
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binary which likely doesn't have USE flags anyway. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |