[tor-dev] tor-browser-build : any way to get it to use system packages for building?

[Jason Vas Dias]

Good day -

  I recently attempted to check-out and build tor-browser-build -
  MUST it download ALL the gits, if system packages
  are found to satisfy version dependencies ?

  I just don't have enough storage / network bandwidth .
  Why am I downloading the llvm source when I already
  have llvm and clang 13 (-devel packages also) on my
  Fedora 36 system ?

  Is there any interest in producing a version of tor-browser-build
  to use installed system packages if they meet version requirements
  instead of checking out GITs & building for ALL dependencies ?
  It could be enabled with a USE_SYSTEM_PKGS=1 make
  option or something.

  I'm going to have to develop this if I want to work on tor-browser,
  which I do want to do.

Best Regards,
Jason