Re: [gentoo-user] FF increasingly being bundled up

[Bryan Gardiner <bog@khumba.net>]

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On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 06:26:37AM -0500, Dale wrote:
> Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:15:08AM +0100, Mick wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I happened to notice that Firefox is having more and more USE flags for using 
> >> system-side rather than bundled in libraries:
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> However, such libraries are not enabled by default and FF will be downloading 
> >> 177,578 KiB of sources.  A couple of questions:
> >>
> >> - Will FF be downloading less if the system side USE flags are enabled?
> > As far as I can tell, the same tarball is downloaded no matter which
> > system-* USE flags you set. The ebuild tells the build system to use the
> > system stuff.
> 
> That's true.  Regardless of USE flags, same tarball.  I don't recall
> ever seeing USE flags affect the size of the tarball unless it is a
> binary which likely doesn't have USE flags anyway. 

"emerge -pf" shows what distfiles are required and takes USE flags
into account, if you want to check for yourself.

Cheers,
Bryan

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