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ttshaw1

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Registered: 2020-04-12

Posts: 47

Extremely slow installation of firefox-kde-opensuse with yay

I'm trying to install firefox-kde-opensuse from the AUR using yay. The command I'm using is

yay -S firefox-kde-opensuse

This results in gcc doing a huge number of torture tests. Yesterday, after inputting the above command and going through the options to view changelogs, cleanmake, and so on, yay and the associated gcc torture tests ran for about 10 hours, then prompted me for the root password. I wasn't at the desk at the time so installation aborted. When I ran the command again, it started going through all the torture tests again.

Is this normal? Is there any way to speed it up? After installation, will I need to dedicate 10 hours to gcc torture tests every time I need to update the package?

Ammako

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Registered: 2021-07-16

Posts: 267

Re: Extremely slow installation of firefox-kde-opensuse with yay

If you're building a browser from source, it's going to take a long time, yes.

You don't need to start it over if you're not present for the password prompt, you can just pacman -U *.zst in your pkgbuild directory to install the built packages (assuming you didn't change any defaults and your built packages use .zst compression.)

You would be better served by firefox-kde-opensuse-rpm

Last edited by Ammako (2021-10-31 18:30:49)