On 2017-06-22 07:23, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <m...@mva.name> wrote: >> Does anyone knows why? Any idea? > The reason is in that fact, that many of it's components are in rust. > And since it was possible to dodge it until now, maintainers considered it is > not a way since now. > > And, by the way, it is not that many time to build rust, as you think: >> Thu Jun 22 12:34:00 2017 >>> dev-lang/rust-1.16.0 >> merge time: 1 hour, 48 minutes. > Than was on 1.9GHz with hardly limited portage (MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l2", > NICENESS=18, ionice -c3, and cgroupped on cpu shares and ram). > > So, ~20 mins would be enough on non-limited portage and full power of that i7.
Thank you all for replying. So it can be around 30~40 minutes or so on my i5 machine. Just it feels strange to install something large that I would probably never use myself. I am considering using binary package instead of compiling it myself. But I am afraid that using firefox-bin package would cause some dependency problem. I once tried libreoffice-bin, but found it really painful to resolve dependency issues during system upgrading. Anyone tried firefox-bin smoothly? Danny
