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From: Alex Alexander <wired@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:47:33
Message-Id: 20110304234657.GH30413@linuxized.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin by "Tomáš Chvátal"
1 On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:32:15AM +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
2 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
3 > Hash: SHA1
4 >
5 > Dne 4.3.2011 10:35, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." napsal(a):
6 > > # Pawel Hajdan jr <phajdan.jr@g.o> (04 Mar 2011)
7 > > # Masked for removal in 90 days.
8 > > # Multiple hard to fix and time consuming maintenance problems:
9 > > # - history of bugs (bug #304527, bug #335101, bug #347175,
10 > > # bug #349249, bug #356609)
11 > > # - upstream's binary builds cannot be used on Gentoo
12 > > # as easily as other -bin packages (ubuntu-specific
13 > > # library names that require compatibility symlinks,
14 > > # bundling libraries, mirror/redistribution policy, and so on)
15 > > # - dependencies for the -bin package are harder to manage;
16 > > # often we have source compatibility, but not binary compatibility
17 > > www-client/chromium-bin
18 > >
19 > Well I can't afford to compile it for 3 hours. Could you at least make
20 > it compile against system webkit?
21 > That would save so much time i would not complain :)
22
23 What system webkit? Chromium has its own version of webkit :)
24
25 Anyway, compilation on a modern system shouldn't take more than an
26 hour. ~15-20 minutes on a quad i5.
27 --
28 Alex Alexander | wired
29 + Gentoo Linux Developer
30 ++ www.linuxized.com

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin "Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin Antoni Grzymala <awaria@××××××××××.pl>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>