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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox?
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does for
> xulrunner and firefox?  AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's sqlite
> instead of bundled sqlite.  Which seems saner.  But recently, the default in
> the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib).
>
> Why?

>From looking at the Changelog it appears there have been issues in the
past when using external sqlite (there are some bug numbers
mentioned). It appears the sqlite USE flag was just added in the
3.5.3-r1 ebuild.