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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:28:49AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote |
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>> However, my whole point wasn't to throw stones at the chromium team - |
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>> I think that they've been doing a great job of fixing this problem, |
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>> and will continue to do so. I just was pointing out that Google's |
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>> practice of bundling dependencies wasn't to my liking, but that I |
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>> wasn't going to give them too much of a hard time precisely because |
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>> I'm not being part of the solution. |
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> I think Chromium's problem is that it's based on Chrome. And Google |
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> is "pulling an AOL" by trying to turn Chrome into an OS for its |
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> Chromebooks. To paraphrase the old emacs joke... Chrom(e/ium) is a |
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> mediocre OS that lacks a lightweight web browser. I just did a |
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> "pretend" build for Chromium. I fail to understand why a *WEB BROWSER* |
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I would argue that the Chrome Team's idea of what a 'WEB BROWSER' is |
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and your idea of what a 'WEB BROWSER' is are vastly divergent. That is |
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totally OK and you are free to use whatever software you prefer. I |
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somehow doubt Chrom{e,ium} is losing tons of users due to their udev / |
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dbus / etc requirements. |
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Disclaimer, I work at Google (but not on any Chrom{e,ium}(OS) related projects.) |
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-A |
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> needs elfutils and dbus and udev as hard-coded dependancies. The udev |
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> dependancy is a show stopper for me, as I've migrated over to mdev. See |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev That page is now mostly other |
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> people's contributions. I was the rabble-rouser who started it. |
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> -- |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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