From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5286D1387B6 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 04:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 342EB21C022; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 04:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 935BE21C00B for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 04:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 299462EA245 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:38:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oqcK0BU+OytM for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:38:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from ca.inter.net (unknown [98.143.103.177]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id ABD212EA0CB for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:38:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:38:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:38:27 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem Message-ID: <20130201043827.GB879@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20130201024111.GA879@ca.inter.net> <510B2DF6.3030203@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <510B2DF6.3030203@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 7e95c158-cc06-4d29-aea9-9ad551d384be X-Archives-Hash: 0360c8f2ff8b52871634f4d5a76bb1ac 130131 Dustin C. Hatch wrote: > On 1/31/2013 20:41, Philip Webb wrote: >> Firefox 17.0.2 requires alsa-lib , which I don't want as I don't use sound; >> this is still the case with USE="-alsa". >> I want to test what happens if I try to compile it without that dep, >> so I copied the ebuild to /var/lib/layman/local/www-client/firefox/ >> & commented the relevant line to remove the RDEPEND. >> When I then tried 'ebuild ...ebuild manifest', >> it started to download xillions of little .xpi files into distfiles , >> apparently 1 for each of the World's many languages >> (this didn't happen at my last 'eix-sync'). > It's downloading those files so it can recalculate the file hashes. That's what I suspected (smile). > When running `ebuild digest`, it has to have > all possible files available in order to update the Manifest file. > Those languages won't be installed when you actually install > your modified package. You'll probably want to keep them around > until you're finished making changes, though. Why doesn't this happen when I do my weekly 'eix-sync' ? Perhaps it silently downloads them, then deletes them again, or perhaps it simply downloads the Manifest on those occasions, but has to calculate it specially for the non-Portage overlay. I'll give it another try, but suggestions are still welcome. Thanks for this one. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca