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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
Subject: Re: Chromium bundled code
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 17:49:25 -0700
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On 03/05/12 16:18, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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.

So is it using libudev to get that information? I guess would be
possible to patch it out, probably dbus would cover that base as well.

(As soon I have some time I might dabble with a dbus integration for mdev)

lu

- -- 

Luca Barbato
Gentoo/linux
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

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