Am 01.02.2013 03:41, schrieb Philip Webb: > 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').
What about not using the local overlay and simply do emerge --nodeps firefox and see what happens? I know, crude.... but simple :)
