On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 07:12:35PM +0100, n952162 wrote > On 2020-03-04 17:14, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > > It will go away but allowing Firefox to self-update on Gentoo will get > > you a very broken Firefox as the ebuilds have gone away from large > > monolithic builds to linking to local system libraries. Not recommended! > > > > Dan > > > > Ah, good point. But I should be able to do the same thing from with > "preference" somewhere, I suspect.
A Pale Moon user here. We get the same warnings about not building Pale Moon with system libs (item 5 https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=20885 ). Since PM is a Firefox fork, it inherits a lot of the same behaviour. I notice that doing "emerge -pv firefox" shows the following default USE flags... system-av1 system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent system-libvpx system-sqlite system-webp Over-riding them in package.use, that should prevent the problems. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
