Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

[Jay Faulkner <jay@jvf.cc>]

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On 2/12/25 4:07 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 February 2025 23:04:49 Greenwich Mean Time Mickaël Bucas wrote:
>
>> I recently converted a fully locally *slowly* built machine to a mixed
>> prebuilt/local build
>> Of the 1857 packages on this machine, 1056 are now using prebuilt
>> packages and the others are local builds
>> USE flags and ~amd64 prevent use of prebuilt packages
>> But I adjusted USE flags until dev-qt/qtwebengine:6 found a prebuilt package!
> Good result!
>
>> And I switched manually to www-client/firefox-bin and dev-lang/rust-bin
> I tried firefox-bin, but I couldn't get it to pick up settings and plugins from
> the original firefox. Rust has been -bin for years here.

The firefox-bin ebuild uses different paths for profiles so they can be 
used/installed simultaneously with firefox (not-bin). I've successfully 
done the (unsupported) operation of copying the profile from one place 
to the other in order to get my -bin profile in my source installed 
version.

Good luck,

Jay Faulkner



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