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 E47DD1387BC for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B824321C027; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:07:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.hadt.biz (sil.hadt.biz [5.9.16.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0988AE0444 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:07:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.255.100] (p5B341483.dip.t-dialin.net [91.52.20.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.hadt.biz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 43AE440034 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:07:25 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <510B85CC.3050503@hadt.biz> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:07:24 +0100 From: Michael Hampicke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem References: <20130201024111.GA879@ca.inter.net> In-Reply-To: <20130201024111.GA879@ca.inter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: eb969e9d-42d4-4f37-82e1-5ea177d509db X-Archives-Hash: 77e127320dffff35671f2572bfef0df7 Am 01.02.2013 03:41, schrieb Philip Webb: > 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'). What about not using the local overlay and simply do emerge --nodeps firefox and see what happens? I know, crude.... but simple :)