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From: Mike Gilbert <floppymaster@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:34:25
Message-Id: AANLkTikH-+ECT2cNBog3P0d4f7PYLP6sxvnEZXu6nu8F@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin by James Cloos
1 On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:04 PM, James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 >>>>>> "PH" == Paweł Hajdan, <phajdan.jr@g.o> writes:
3 >
4 > PH> That's the chromium-bin, really. The difference is that chromium has
5 > PH> more deps and takes more time to compile than grub. Also, it has much
6 > PH> more frequent releases, and almost every stable release is a security
7 > PH> update.
8 >
9 > And every one of those chromium releases is another 200 Meg download.
10 >
11 > Or is that yet another?
12 >
13 > Still yet another?
14
15 Chromium tarballs are actually around 140 MB. It would be interesting
16 to see if we can trim that tarball down.
17
18 For comparison, Firefox weighs in at about 50 MB.

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