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From: Neeum Zawan
Date: 18 Oct 2009 11:41:46
Message: <4adb373a$1@news.povray.org>

On 10/18/09 01:26, Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Just getting Firefox to *compile* is quite a pain afaik...
>> emerge firefox
>>
>
> The package is actually called mozilla-firefox. And it compiles pretty
> quickly:
>
>       Sun Oct 18 06:14:25 2009>>>  www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.14
>         merge time: 45 seconds.

	I don't know if you're joking or not, but that's highly misleading. 
Firefox needs xulrunner (and they release a new xulrunner with each new 
Firefox). xulrunner takes a while:

     Fri Aug  7 11:27:09 2009 >>> net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.1.2
        merge time: 1 hour, 4 minutes and 47 seconds.


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