On 12/17/2014 04:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? > Depends on your needs: > > firefox: > - pro: you get all the USE flags > - pro: you don't get bundled libs from Mozilla, the ebuild can use > system libs > - pro: the compiled binaries are integrated into gentoo like other ebuilds > - con: slow compiles. I have 8 i7 cores and 16G. the merge takes 20-35 > minutes...
Really? 20-35 minutes? I have 6 cores and 32G, and firefox only takes 10 minutes. Do you have PORTAGE_TMPDIR mounted on tmpfs? Alec
