On Monday 26 October 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does > for xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's > sqlite instead of bundled sqlite. Which seems saner. But recently, the > default in the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib). > > Why?
This is from the Changelog: 20 Jun 2008; Raúl Porcel <[email protected]> -mozilla-firefox-3.0.ebuild, +mozilla-firefox-3.0-r1.ebuild: Don't use external sqlite, since it seems to give some problems, bug #228305, and fix bindist icon, bug #228317 and, more recently, 25 Oct 2009; Jory A. Pratt <[email protected]> +mozilla-firefox-3.5.3-r1.ebuild: remove iceweasel support in favor of icecat, do not build sqlite system support if disabled in xulrunner 30 Aug 2009; Jory A. Pratt <[email protected]> -mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r1.ebuild, +mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r2.ebuild: drop system sqlite support in 3.5.x until segv fixed.
