Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

(Nuno Silva) wrote:
> On 2018-11-18, Daniel Frey wrote:
> [...]
>> It's really unfortunate that on massive builds distcc is not an option.
>> Maybe I should consider -bin instead.
> If you do happen to have a more powerful machine running Gentoo on a
> compatible architecture[1], you could also try Gentoo binary packages
> (that is, not -bin, but binary packages made from www-client/firefox and
> mail-client/thunderbird on that machine, either automatically with
> FEATURES=buildpkg, or manually using quickpkg or emerge --buildpkg).
>
> [1] I guess it should also be possible to cross-compile, but that will
> require additional steps, with which I am not acquainted.
>
> Do you know Seamonkey? If you like it and it works for everything you
> use Firefox and Thunderbird with, another idea to consider would be
> replacing Firefox and Thunderbird with Seamonkey Navigator and Seamonkey
> Mail&News.  That way, it would be "just" one massive build instead of
> two.
>

I looked at the build times of both Firefox and Seamonkey, they both
average out to about the same.  For me here, about 1.5 hours.  Of
course, it varies a bit but that's a rough average.  While genlop -t
shows compile times, it doesn't average them out.  It's just rough in my
head quick math.  ;-)  I agree that Seamonkey may be a good option for
Daniel.

I use Seamonkey for my email and some web browsing.  While the new
Firefox has some advantages in some areas, Seamonkey does work well.  I
have both installed here. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

P. S.  For those who keep up with my slow upgrades.  I just ordered a
FX-8350 CPU and 32GBs of ram.  The new Firefox with Content Process set
to 4 would use all my memory and cause my system to crash, reboot
actually.  I had to go back to one.  With the new 32GBs of ram, I hope
to be able to set it to 2, 3 or maybe 4.  For what I do, I think 2 would
be enough.  They should be here in a few days.  Sort of dread putting
the CPU in.  Always concerned something could go sideways.  :/  Old
parts will go on a older mobo I have.  It may turn into a server for all
those hard drives I need to have.  lol