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On 9/25/11 5:53 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Repeat this 100 times and you end up with a chromium tarball |
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> that consists of 90% redistributed 3rd-party libraries with subtle |
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> tweaks. However, can you really argue with Google's success with this |
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> approach. |
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At least in Gentoo we remove _most_ of the bundled libraries. Currently |
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the biggest culprits are probably ffmpeg (Chromium upstream breaks it so |
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often that I gave up trying to use the system version) and mesa (yeah, |
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Chromium bundles it and it seems it's patched). |
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I'm slowly convincing the upstream to have a more distro-friendly |
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bundling strategy (i.e. staying close to upstream and making it possible |
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to use system versions). This takes time, and I often need to do the |
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unbundling work myself. |
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