Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Antoni Grzymala <awaria@××××××××××.pl>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:34:30
Message-Id: 20110305023336.GA8698@lemongrass.antoszka.pl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin by Alex Alexander
1 Alex Alexander dixit (2011-03-05, 01:46):
2
3 > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:32:15AM +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
4 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
5 > > Hash: SHA1
6 > >
7 > > Dne 4.3.2011 10:35, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." napsal(a):
8 > > > # Pawel Hajdan jr <phajdan.jr@g.o> (04 Mar 2011)
9 > > > # Masked for removal in 90 days.
10 > > > # Multiple hard to fix and time consuming maintenance problems:
11 > > > # - history of bugs (bug #304527, bug #335101, bug #347175,
12 > > > # bug #349249, bug #356609)
13 > > > # - upstream's binary builds cannot be used on Gentoo
14 > > > # as easily as other -bin packages (ubuntu-specific
15 > > > # library names that require compatibility symlinks,
16 > > > # bundling libraries, mirror/redistribution policy, and so on)
17 > > > # - dependencies for the -bin package are harder to manage;
18 > > > # often we have source compatibility, but not binary compatibility
19 > > > www-client/chromium-bin
20 > > >
21 > > Well I can't afford to compile it for 3 hours. Could you at least make
22 > > it compile against system webkit?
23 > > That would save so much time i would not complain :)
24 >
25 > What system webkit? Chromium has its own version of webkit :)
26 >
27 > Anyway, compilation on a modern system shouldn't take more than an
28 > hour. ~15-20 minutes on a quad i5.
29
30 Takes ~32 minutes on my i7 (dual core @2.67 ghz).
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