Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:15:08AM +0100, Mick wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I happened to notice that Firefox is having more and more USE flags for >> using >> system-side rather than bundled in libraries: >> >> ... >> >> However, such libraries are not enabled by default and FF will be >> downloading >> 177,578 KiB of sources. A couple of questions: >> >> - Will FF be downloading less if the system side USE flags are enabled? > As far as I can tell, the same tarball is downloaded no matter which > system-* USE flags you set. The ebuild tells the build system to use the > system stuff. > > > Alec > >
That's true. Regardless of USE flags, same tarball. I don't recall ever seeing USE flags affect the size of the tarball unless it is a binary which likely doesn't have USE flags anyway. Dale :-) :-)
