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From: Alexey Eschenko <skobkin-ru@××.ru>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust??
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 08:27:30
Message-Id: 77da207a-806d-e820-3f71-e5df79b9ddfd@ya.ru
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust?? by Danny YUE
1 For me it was a *slightly* less quicker start. Which I think don't means
2 much when speaking about browser.
3
4
5 On 06/22/2017 11:09 AM, Danny YUE wrote:
6 > On 2017-06-22 07:43, Rasmus Thomsen <Rasmus.thomsen@××××××××××.com> wrote:
7 >> I'm using firefox-bin ( and libreoffice-bin ) on my laptop and I didn't have problems with either of them
8 >>
9 >> Regards,
10 >> Rasmus
11 >> -------- Original Message --------
12 >> On 22 Jun 2017, 09:34, Danny YUE wrote:
13 >>
14 >> On 2017-06-22 07:23, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
15 >>>> Does anyone knows why? Any idea?
16 >>> The reason is in that fact, that many of it's components are in rust.
17 >>> And since it was possible to dodge it until now, maintainers considered it is
18 >>> not a way since now.
19 >>>
20 >>> And, by the way, it is not that many time to build rust, as you think:
21 >>>> Thu Jun 22 12:34:00 2017 >>> dev-lang/rust-1.16.0
22 >>>> merge time: 1 hour, 48 minutes.
23 >>> Than was on 1.9GHz with hardly limited portage (MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l2",
24 >>> NICENESS=18, ionice -c3, and cgroupped on cpu shares and ram).
25 >>>
26 >>> So, ~20 mins would be enough on non-limited portage and full power of that i7.
27 >> Thank you all for replying.
28 >>
29 >> So it can be around 30~40 minutes or so on my i5 machine.
30 >> Just it feels strange to install something large that I would probably
31 >> never use myself.
32 >>
33 >> I am considering using binary package instead of compiling it myself.
34 >>
35 >> But I am afraid that using firefox-bin package would cause some
36 >> dependency problem. I once tried libreoffice-bin, but found it really
37 >> painful to resolve dependency issues during system upgrading.
38 >>
39 >> Anyone tried firefox-bin smoothly?
40 >>
41 >> Danny
42 >> @mva.name>
43 > Well, I ran into the same problem with libreoffice-bin *last time*, as
44 > Alexey.
45 >
46 > It seems that version number of libreoffice-bin is always smaller than
47 > libreoffice. So dependency issue is always a problem with it.
48 >
49 > I noticed firefox-bin only has *usual* packages as dependencies...
50 > By the way what is the difference between compiled and binary firefox
51 > from a user's perspective?
52 >
53 > P.S. Someone told me that people in this list do not like top-posting.
54 >
55 > Thanks.
56 > Danny
57 >
58
59 --
60 Kind regards,
61 Alexey Eschenko
62 https://skobk.in/

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