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On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:38:04 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: |
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> I was trying to emerge chromium and I noticed that it should download |
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> about 200 Mb, and no wonder cause it is source files, not binary |
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> executable. However I wanted to know that if a new version of chromium |
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> comes out, an update will download another 200 Mb or just a diff files |
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> to patch the altered files ? (I am a new user and I have not |
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> experienced that situation!) |
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It will download the source for the new version, which is generally a |
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separate tarball, so another 200MB. That's how Gentoo works, with very |
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few exceptions that source is downloaded and compiled. |
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If you want to avoid the large download and lengthy compile time of |
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chromium, use www-client/google-chrome instead, this is the pre-compiled |
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binary from Google. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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EMail - garbage at the speed of light. |
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