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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [gentoo-user] Chromium on linux, build question
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 21:05:55
Message-Id: CAJ0EP40pCQrGdUL3MeVzOtsh23TRFoskJUWb5NN1Ngzt0PrBcg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [EXTERNAL] [gentoo-user] Chromium on linux, build question by John Covici
1 On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:12 PM John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:21:45 -0400,
4 > Laurence Perkins wrote:
5 > >
6 > > [1 <text/plain; UTF-7 (quoted-printable)>]
7 > >
8 > >
9 > > On Sun, 2019-09-15 at 05:45 -0400, John Covici wrote:
10 > > > Hi. I want to have Chromium on linux, but I want to build the
11 > > > Chrome
12 > > > OS version, so I can have their version of the accessibility plugin
13 > > > which is called Chrom next. I did not see any use flags, so how can
14 > > > I
15 > > > do this on gentoo? I am using the unstable version of gentoo. It is
16 > > > my understanding that this can be done on Debian and other
17 > > > distributions.
18 > > >
19 > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
20 > > >
21 > > I believe what you're probably looking for is the chrome-binary-plugins
22 > > package. This downloads the binary version of Chrome and pulls all the
23 > > Google-proprietary bits out of it and loads them into your Chromium.
24 > >
25 > > Of course, at that point you might as well just use Chrome... But I
26 > > suppose you could try whacking out the ones you don't want and see what
27 > > happens.
28 >
29 > What I am trying to do is to build chromium in such a way that I can
30 > use the assistive technology called Chrome next which requires chrome
31 > for chrome os. Does that make sense?
32
33 If you can figure out what kind of flags we need to pass to the build
34 system, please file a bug and we can add a USE flag for it.