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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:33:51
Message-Id: CAEdQ38GMaGVqCw3ncQaHE1osQs-jeVL1CaOFqb+o-Ungd2jo=g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code by Mike Frysinger
1 On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Monday 30 April 2012 12:00:59 Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >> doing it wrong.  I don't like how Google develops Android in the dark,
4 >> or that they bundle 1GB of third-party stuff in their Chromium source
5 >> and distribute a favored binary-only derivative.
6 >
7 > err, they distribute a Chromium source tarball, and their build system
8 > includes flags to use the system versions of those bundled libs if you so
9 > choose.  i think this is a perfectly fine compromise.
10 > -mike
11
12 It looks like chromium-20.0.1115.1.ebuild removes 45 bundled
13 libraries, and still has TODOs in place to use the system's ffmpeg,
14 hunspell, (Open?)SSL, SQLite, and libvpx.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code "Paweł Hajdan