Walter Dnes wrote: > 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. >
I was just reading a post there about this. I was sort of curious as to what others do and why. I can see the point you are making tho. Keeping it in sync could be interesting. To add some info. I enabled those and recompiled Seamonkey and Firefox earlier today. I had Seamonkey crash a couple times the other day and thought I would try using it this way, see if it matters. Firefox is pretty stable tho. The only gripe I have on it, memory usage and being so dang slow to close. I tell it to quit and it sits there for a while. Thing is, I have TONS of tabs. It got so bad, I added that tab grouping thingy to help sort them out a bit. lol Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
