On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 07:13:36PM -0600, Dale wrote > Questions. How do you set yours and why if you know why? Which one > is most stable? Any other advantages to having it one way or > the other. Should some be on and others off?
A thread "Subject: [gentoo-user] palemoon again: USE=system-libs" is asking the exact same question right now about Pale Moon (a Firefox fork). As a precautionary principle, I try to avoid system libs as much as possible. Using the internal version avoids ABI mis-matches (as in "Windows DLL-hell") between the external library and the internal calls. System libs do work 99% of the time, but there can be problems if the browser is updared and expects a newer library, or a library is updated and changes ABI. Gentoo ebuilds can specify dependancy version ranges, but that may sometimes run into blockers if multiple apps want the same library, but different versions. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
