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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 19:40:54
Message-Id: 4FA4307C.4090804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code by "Paweł Hajdan
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4 On 04/05/12 11:37, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
5 > On 5/4/12 8:21 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
6 >> My 2 cents: The Chromium project really doesn't have any motivation to
7 >> make it optional since their end product is Google Chrome and they
8 >> target a given version of Ubuntu. I think a patch to make them
9 >> optional might be accepted, but it probably isn't going to happen
10 >> otherwise.
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12 > Another point is that too many USE flags for such a big and complex
13 > package as www-client/chromium would make testing much much harder, and
14 > create many configurations upstream would not support.
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16 I'll check with upstream if that would be a huge problem for them, we
17 have 6 useflags and we'd bump them to 8. Firefox has twice of them.
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19 If nobody else wants to I could have a look and see how hard is to make
20 that nicer for our non-udev/non-dbus users on linux.
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26 Luca Barbato
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>