On 2017-06-22 07:43, Rasmus Thomsen <rasmus.thom...@protonmail.com> wrote: > I'm using firefox-bin ( and libreoffice-bin ) on my laptop and I didn't have > problems with either of them > > Regards, > Rasmus > -------- Original Message -------- > On 22 Jun 2017, 09:34, Danny YUE wrote: > > On 2017-06-22 07:23, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: >>> Does anyone knows why? Any idea? >> The reason is in that fact, that many of it's components are in rust. >> And since it was possible to dodge it until now, maintainers considered it is >> not a way since now. >> >> And, by the way, it is not that many time to build rust, as you think: >>> Thu Jun 22 12:34:00 2017 >>> dev-lang/rust-1.16.0 >>> merge time: 1 hour, 48 minutes. >> Than was on 1.9GHz with hardly limited portage (MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l2", >> NICENESS=18, ionice -c3, and cgroupped on cpu shares and ram). >> >> So, ~20 mins would be enough on non-limited portage and full power of that >> i7. > > Thank you all for replying. > > So it can be around 30~40 minutes or so on my i5 machine. > Just it feels strange to install something large that I would probably > never use myself. > > I am considering using binary package instead of compiling it myself. > > But I am afraid that using firefox-bin package would cause some > dependency problem. I once tried libreoffice-bin, but found it really > painful to resolve dependency issues during system upgrading. > > Anyone tried firefox-bin smoothly? > > Danny > @mva.name>
Well, I ran into the same problem with libreoffice-bin *last time*, as Alexey. It seems that version number of libreoffice-bin is always smaller than libreoffice. So dependency issue is always a problem with it. I noticed firefox-bin only has *usual* packages as dependencies... By the way what is the difference between compiled and binary firefox from a user's perspective? P.S. Someone told me that people in this list do not like top-posting. Thanks. Danny
