Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox?
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox?
>
>
There are advantages to both, really, since firefox-bin uses a
pre-built executable (with a pre-defined set of compile-time options),
while firefox builds from s
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 libs
- pro: the compiled binaries are
On 12/17/2014 04:59 PM, 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 libs from Mozilla, the ebu
Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
>
>
> On 12/17/2014 04:59 PM, 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
> > -
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:59:23 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage
> because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain
> packages. But Linux is pretty good at disk caching, so I wonder if that
> is it?
You ca
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:59:23 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>
> > Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage
> > because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain
> > packages. But Linux is pretty good at disk caching, so
On 18/12/2014 03:33, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
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> On 12/17/2014 04:59 PM, 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
>>
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:59:23 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>>
>>> Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage
>>> because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain
>>> packages. But Linux is
On Thursday 18 December 2014 08:23:59 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> You can change PORTAGE_TMPDIR per-package. I have it on a tmpfs and then
> change it for packages like LO.
>
> % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice
> app-office/libreoffice disk-tmpdir.conf
>
> % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:26:42 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf
> > PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch"
>
> Are comments allowed in, e.g., /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf?
It's just a bashrc file,so comments should be fine.
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Neil Bothwick
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On Thursday 18 December 2014 11:53:41 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:26:42 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf
> > > PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch"
> >
> > Are comments allowed in, e.g., /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf?
>
> It's just a bashrc
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