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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:31:00
Message-Id: 201204301330.43297.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code by Matt Turner
1 On Monday 30 April 2012 12:32:35 Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Monday 30 April 2012 12:00:59 Rich Freeman wrote:
4 > >> doing it wrong. I don't like how Google develops Android in the dark,
5 > >> or that they bundle 1GB of third-party stuff in their Chromium source
6 > >> and distribute a favored binary-only derivative.
7 > >
8 > > err, they distribute a Chromium source tarball, and their build system
9 > > includes flags to use the system versions of those bundled libs if you so
10 > > choose. i think this is a perfectly fine compromise.
11 >
12 > It looks like chromium-20.0.1115.1.ebuild removes 45 bundled
13 > libraries
14
15 to be sure the system ones get used
16
17 > and still has TODOs in place to use the system's ffmpeg,
18 > hunspell, (Open?)SSL, SQLite, and libvpx.
19
20 it's on going work :). ffmpeg/libvpx are a bit harder as Chromium syncs faster
21 than they make releases i believe.
22 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>