[gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon writes: > On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? > > Depends on your needs: > > firefox: > - pro: you get all the USE flags > - pro: you don't get bundled libs from Mozilla, the ebuild can use > system

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:59:59 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs > > firefox? > > Depends on your needs: > > firefox: > - pro: you get all the USE flags > - pro: you don't get bundled lib

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread »Q«
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:59:58 -0500 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > That is interesting, but firefox requires 8g I think of temp space, > the very package which takes so long. I have 16g of memory, but I > wonder if my whole system would start to crawl. I would try it. I have only 8GiB. I used t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:46:45AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > > > On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs > >> firefox? > > > > Depends on your needs: > > […] > > firefox-bin: > > […] > > - con: p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/12/14 06:10, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I once -- just for fun -- compiled Firefox on an Atom N450. This > has no effect on the loading time of 20 seconds. ^^ And how long did it take? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:07:34PM +0300, the wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 18/12/14 06:10, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > I once -- just for fun -- compiled Firefox on an Atom N450. This > > has no effect on the loading time of 20 seconds. ^^ > > And how long d