Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 02 Feb 2017 03:19:24 Dale wrote:
>>
>> I been using system libs since just before my first post. So far, it's
>> working pretty well. No crashes or anything. I also upgraded Firefox
>> the other day when it did its release. It built and seems to be running
>> fine. When it breaks or stops working right, I'll try switching back.
>>
>> Thanks to all for the replies. I was curious what others were doing.
>> It seems others use both ways for differing reasons.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :-)
> Other than security implications of older libs being built in with default
> USE
> flags, is there some performance or emerge time benefit/disbenefit from using
> system-libs?
Keeping in mind that I build more than one package at a time when
updating, I don't see much difference in build time. It takes roughly a
hour each time. This is the last few build times with version.
Sun Dec 4 21:40:15 2016 >>> www-client/firefox-50.0.2
merge time: 41 minutes and 23 seconds.
Wed Dec 14 22:30:20 2016 >>> www-client/firefox-50.1.0
merge time: 53 minutes and 43 seconds.
Sun Jan 8 20:38:09 2017 >>> www-client/firefox-50.1.0-r1
merge time: 1 hour, 9 minutes and 3 seconds.
Wed Jan 18 17:35:08 2017 >>> www-client/firefox-50.1.0-r1
merge time: 1 hour, 2 minutes and 23 seconds.
Sun Jan 29 20:29:58 2017 >>> www-client/firefox-51.0
merge time: 57 minutes and 24 seconds.
The 41 minutes with Firefox building was before the switch. Odds are,
it was building while nothing else was using CPU time. The others are
within 10 to 15 minutes of each other. I looked at some older build
times, pretty much the same. Based on that, I don't see any difference.
As to being outdated at times, there are times I hold off on Firefox
because of plugin issues. I've been known to hold off on Firefox for
weeks at times. I don't recall holding off on system lib updates.
While being outdated at times is possible, it likely isn't any more
likely than anything else. I figure being able to run the latest
Firefox would be a better option but I need my plugins to work.
On performance, I can't tell any difference. I had a couple random
crashes before switching and since the switch, none of those. I didn't
lose any data from the crash but still like it to be stable. Basically,
it's the same.
Other than no longer crashing at times now, not much difference really.
I don't know for sure that using system libs is what fixed it either.
Dale
:-) :-)
