On 12/20/05, Joseph Felps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would be safe because firefox 1.5 uses the current stable > cairo version 1.0.2. Cairo will soon be the rendering the entire > firefox engine, graphics, interface, etc..
With one caveat. If a bug or security hole arises in cairo, would you rather rebuild cairo and firefox or just cairo? And what if firefox doesn't update it's cairo source right away? I think historically at BLFS the push has been to use libraries that are already installed on your system. Archaic brought up a good reason to use the system installed libraries a few weeks ago with regards to --with-system-zlib: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2005-December/012257.html -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
