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THis is not the issue, I think. See: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/firefox https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/p

THis is not the issue, I think. See: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/firefox https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/P... The problem is that it is a giant codebase, you need to compile C++, Rust for hours. Even pulling the latest code is an ordeal. It's not feasible on lowly workstations and garden variety cheap cloud VM builders, the performance is just crap.

elagost 8y ago
When I ran Gentoo on my laptop, emerging Firefox took far longer than compiling even the Kernel. Around 90 minutes, I think.
kbenson 8y ago
I was speaking more to the general case of projects with small bus factors for deploying. And slow is moistly irrelevant to the point, which is making something possible which largely wasn't before.