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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:48:48
Message-Id: jguu15$oej$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package by Alan McKinnon
1 On 02/08/2012 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 +0000
3 > Mick<michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
4
5 >> Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium?
6
7 > Chrome is a binary blob
8 > Chromium is built from source
9 > There used to be a chromium-bin a while ago but the maintainer got fed
10 > up with the hassles of building the damn thing for multiple arches and
11 > gave up.
12 >
13 > The OP *did* say in his opening post that he was fed up with the
14 > multi-hour emerge when building chromium, hence his desire to tweak
15 > the chrome ebuild
16
17 Heh. I'm often guilty of posting to long threads without reading the whole
18 involved thing first.
19
20 I just learned that 'chromium' still exists, and the reason that chromium-bin
21 disappeared from portage. Not bad work for one thread :)

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