From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SQE2c-0004Ff-NC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2012 08:39:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E49C4E0827; Fri, 4 May 2012 08:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F288E0978 for ; Fri, 4 May 2012 08:37:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenq2 with SMTP id q2so3107308yen.40 for ; Fri, 04 May 2012 01:37:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=JbyUE5xbHl4Gh10nwtQR86FnloQy59vlS14oLMm56nY=; b=jENhDj5etLnrS52kdGA4qMJ7iZgFtiSM1hKxwWXRjt2pBwD5ORfI/HiYGVhjYdCQdi OYtX+pVb5ABwgQVEwui5ADTzE6PTTVV+7HTyNn7Pij4S8n/pl2QkYALN9tOa7Yt0OAzy VBXcQf8GA8BscGyhRmnxxkf2A4Xzm9eyYv7TA28uwiEkvLeXr9RPDVUE3+33ztvd6pLH 7KavGHOGCMB08c58aBecIUuX9LZSjsRpMLqmMhk9XKo2uyctnVXvFrywpmJVJSxoIft9 YcYW28gZdKHwMPiP9139XL00XfNHgdxS7ZKI57skaAVtgiSWxq2FUV0CYMUdIp6EUo+7 ryqA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.215.68 with SMTP id hd4mr2568291icb.30.1336120656565; Fri, 04 May 2012 01:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.231.134.193 with HTTP; Fri, 4 May 2012 01:37:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120503213930.GA5562@waltdnes.org> References: <4F9E44D0.70002@linx.net> <4F9E47AF.9080201@gentoo.org> <201204301211.05705.vapier@gentoo.org> <4FA2512E.7030806@gentoo.org> <20120503213930.GA5562@waltdnes.org> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 10:37:36 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: g5GWozSb_KR4xBjPe_zs-sJyJaQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl2qXmhXeOoKUDLww92A0iu0V9qmKr5jejCka3KYotnWGRQv6byiC8OW5ZZ9ATRl6fH6GGZ X-Archives-Salt: 7cfb401b-60fc-48e1-ab4a-200f107f1029 X-Archives-Hash: 24c5956d49876e426e10a41582ecc8ac On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:28:49AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > >> However, my whole point wasn't to throw stones at the chromium team - >> I think that they've been doing a great job of fixing this problem, >> and will continue to do so. =C2=A0I just was pointing out that Google's >> practice of bundling dependencies wasn't to my liking, but that I >> wasn't going to give them too much of a hard time precisely because >> I'm not being part of the solution. > > =C2=A0I think Chromium's problem is that it's based on Chrome. =C2=A0And = Google > is "pulling an AOL" by trying to turn Chrome into an OS for its > Chromebooks. =C2=A0To paraphrase the old emacs joke... Chrom(e/ium) is a > mediocre OS that lacks a lightweight web browser. =C2=A0I just did a > "pretend" build for Chromium. =C2=A0I fail to understand why a *WEB BROWS= ER* I would argue that the Chrome Team's idea of what a 'WEB BROWSER' is and your idea of what a 'WEB BROWSER' is are vastly divergent. That is totally OK and you are free to use whatever software you prefer. I somehow doubt Chrom{e,ium} is losing tons of users due to their udev / dbus / etc requirements. Disclaimer, I work at Google (but not on any Chrom{e,ium}(OS) related proje= cts.) -A > needs elfutils and dbus and udev as hard-coded dependancies. =C2=A0The ud= ev > dependancy is a show stopper for me, as I've migrated over to mdev. =C2= =A0See > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev =C2=A0That page is now mostly other > people's contributions. =C2=A0I was the rabble-rouser who started it. > > -- > Walter Dnes >