On Sat, 08 Feb 2020 13:26:19 -0500, Nils Freydank wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] > Am Samstag, 8. Februar 2020, 05:26:20 CET schrieb John Covici: > > Hi. Well, I have run into a problem on the world update I am about to > > do? Firefox requires libvpx-1.7.0 and handbrake wants 8.x. Now > > there is a use flag systemlibvpx which is enabled, I am assuming if I > > disable that the great God of portage will let me continue with my > > update -- any reason why I should not do this? > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > Hi, indeed. If you disable USE="system-libvpx" (i.e. don't set it activly > or set USE="-system-libvpx" portage will tell firefox to use the bundled > version. Bundling software is generally spoken a really bad habit, and > within the firefox package you can see several USE="-system-something" > flags, that are just a try to unbundle things on user's choice. > > Hope that helps a bit, > Nils OK, I will try it, I agree its better to use the system libraries, but I don't get to choose, if I want both pieces of software -- not sure why handbrake needs one version and firefox the other version.
Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com