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From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:30:25
Message-Id: 200910261630.09246.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Monday 26 October 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2
3 > Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does
4 > for xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's
5 > sqlite instead of bundled sqlite. Which seems saner. But recently, the
6 > default in the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib).
7 >
8 > Why?
9
10 This is from the Changelog:
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12 20 Jun 2008; Raúl Porcel <armin76@g.o>
13 -mozilla-firefox-3.0.ebuild, +mozilla-firefox-3.0-r1.ebuild:
14 Don't use external sqlite, since it seems to give some problems, bug
15 #228305, and fix bindist icon, bug #228317
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17 and, more recently,
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19 25 Oct 2009; Jory A. Pratt <anarchy@g.o>
20 +mozilla-firefox-3.5.3-r1.ebuild:
21 remove iceweasel support in favor of icecat, do not build sqlite system
22 support if disabled in xulrunner
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24 30 Aug 2009; Jory A. Pratt <anarchy@g.o>
25 -mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r1.ebuild, +mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r2.ebuild:
26 drop system sqlite support in 3.5.x until segv fixed.

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[gentoo-user] Re: What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox? Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>