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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 01:22:10
Message-Id: 201205032122.12231.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code by Luca Barbato
1 On Thursday 03 May 2012 20:49:25 Luca Barbato wrote:
2 > On 03/05/12 16:18, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Thursday 03 May 2012 17:39:30 Walter Dnes wrote:
4 > >> I fail to understand why a *WEB BROWSER* needs elfutils and dbus and
5 > >> udev as hard-coded dependancies.
6 > >
7 > > you need to think bigger. Chromium supports joystick inputs (which come
8 > > and go) for playing games in the browser, so udev makes sense.
9 >
10 > So is it using libudev to get that information? I guess would be
11 > possible to patch it out, probably dbus would cover that base as well.
12
13 i'm not sure that info is broadcasted over dbus. at any rate, if it is, i'm
14 not sure that would gain traction upstream unless it was an improvement. and
15 if it's not going upstream, i don't Paweł is keen on maintaining it locally.
16
17 > (As soon I have some time I might dabble with a dbus integration for mdev)
18
19 we would have to make mdev available as a sep package then ... don't want
20 busybox itself linking against anything beyond the C library.
21 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>