On Thursday 03 May 2012 17:39:30 Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I think Chromium's problem is that it's based on Chrome.

you've got that wrong.  Chrome is based on Chromium.

> And Google is "pulling an AOL" by trying to turn Chrome into an OS for its
> Chromebooks.

ChromeOS and Chrome are run as semi-separate projects.  the former uses Gentoo 
to provide a slim/secure Linux base in which you run Chrome.

> I fail to understand why a *WEB BROWSER* needs elfutils and dbus and udev as
> hard-coded dependancies.

you need to think bigger.  Chromium supports joystick inputs (which come and 
go) for playing games in the browser, so udev makes sense.  it also supports 
looking up your location, detecting when the network comes up/down, and 
kde/gnome password stores, all of which require dbus.  and with nacl, you're 
loading ELF objects, so libelf makes sense.

really though, if you don't like Chrome, then don't use it.  many people do.
-mike