On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 06:26:37AM -0500, Dale wrote: > 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. > > 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.
"emerge -pf" shows what distfiles are required and takes USE flags into account, if you want to check for yourself. Cheers, Bryan
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