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Re: [LUG] thunderbirds are go

 

On 09/08/2020 17:38, comrade meowski wrote:
> Ubuntu can be really slow to package certain software so I've been
> backporting a bunch of stuff to 18.04 and 20.04 LTS - most if it's
> really easy and straight forward but some packages are absolute
> monsters. For comparison a full "kitchen-sink" generic x64 kernel build
> takes about 25 minutes and uses 5-6Gb space on average for a full branch
> checkout and compile.
> 
> I just backported Thunderbird 78 which has already been out for weeks
> because I was getting annoyed waiting for it:
> 
> comrade@failbot:~/SRC/chunderbird$ apt-cache policy thunderbird | sed -n 2p
>   Installed: 1:78.1.1+build1-0ubuntu1+motherland1
> 
> It took over 4 hours to build! And the size of it...
> 
> comrade@failbot:~/SRC/chunderbird$ du -sh .
> 30G    .
> 
> Now I know how MJE feels every time he turns on his Gentoo computer and
> sees there are updates available :]
> 

openSUSE LEAP 15.2 is just on Thunderbird 68.10.

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Eion MacDonald

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