Re: [EXTERNAL] [gentoo-user] Chromium on linux, build question

[John Covici]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:21:45 -0400,
Laurence Perkins wrote:
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> On Sun, 2019-09-15 at 05:45 -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > Hi.  I want to have Chromium  on linux, but I want to build the
> > Chrome
> > OS version, so I can have their version of the accessibility plugin
> > which is called Chrom next.  I did not see any use flags, so how can
> > I
> > do this on gentoo?  I am using the unstable version of gentoo.  It is
> > my understanding that this can be done on Debian and other
> > distributions.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> I believe what you're probably looking for is the chrome-binary-plugins
> package.  This downloads the binary version of Chrome and pulls all the
> Google-proprietary bits out of it and loads them into your Chromium.
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> Of course, at that point you might as well just use Chrome...  But I
> suppose you could try whacking out the ones you don't want and see what
> happens.

What I am trying to do is to build chromium in such a way that I can
use the assistive technology called Chrome next which requires chrome
for chrome os.  Does that make sense?

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