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by rhoyerboat 2246 days ago
the general issue is that the feature rich web browser contains libraries wrapped around basically every leaf and stem of windows, mac and *nix desktop interface family forests.

(if your building on say, a completely fresh stage3 gentoo system, that equals some pretty good linker load. cairo comes to mind as a huge culprit, whether its webkit or mozilla.)