On 2017-06-22 08:27, Alexey Eschenko <skobkin...@ya.ru> wrote: > For me it was a *slightly* less quicker start. Which I think don't means > much when speaking about browser. > > > On 06/22/2017 11:09 AM, Danny YUE wrote: >> 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 >>
I agree. Anyway I just start my Emacs and Firefox and keep them open until system shutdown. I just installed firefox-bin and did not feel any difference. I will try to compile firefox just for curiosity. Thank you all. Danny
