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On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:28:49AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote |
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> However, my whole point wasn't to throw stones at the chromium team - |
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> I think that they've been doing a great job of fixing this problem, |
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> and will continue to do so. I just was pointing out that Google's |
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> practice of bundling dependencies wasn't to my liking, but that I |
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> wasn't going to give them too much of a hard time precisely because |
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> I'm not being part of the solution. |
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I think Chromium's problem is that it's based on Chrome. And Google |
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is "pulling an AOL" by trying to turn Chrome into an OS for its |
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Chromebooks. To paraphrase the old emacs joke... Chrom(e/ium) is a |
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mediocre OS that lacks a lightweight web browser. I just did a |
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"pretend" build for Chromium. I fail to understand why a *WEB BROWSER* |
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needs elfutils and dbus and udev as hard-coded dependancies. The udev |
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dependancy is a show stopper for me, as I've migrated over to mdev. See |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev That page is now mostly other |
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people's contributions. I was the rabble-rouser who started it. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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