130131 Dustin C. Hatch wrote: > On 1/31/2013 20:41, Philip Webb wrote: >> Firefox 17.0.2 requires alsa-lib , which I don't want as I don't use sound; >> this is still the case with USE="-alsa". >> I want to test what happens if I try to compile it without that dep, >> so I copied the ebuild to /var/lib/layman/local/www-client/firefox/ >> & commented the relevant line to remove the RDEPEND. >> When I then tried 'ebuild <newpkgname>...ebuild manifest', >> it started to download xillions of little .xpi files into distfiles , >> apparently 1 for each of the World's many languages >> (this didn't happen at my last 'eix-sync'). > It's downloading those files so it can recalculate the file hashes.
That's what I suspected (smile). > When running `ebuild <file> digest`, it has to have > all possible files available in order to update the Manifest file. > Those languages won't be installed when you actually install > your modified package. You'll probably want to keep them around > until you're finished making changes, though. Why doesn't this happen when I do my weekly 'eix-sync' ? Perhaps it silently downloads them, then deletes them again, or perhaps it simply downloads the Manifest on those occasions, but has to calculate it specially for the non-Portage overlay. I'll give it another try, but suggestions are still welcome. Thanks for this one. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
