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 1RvFOk-0004ME-TH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:49:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1418E073C; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:49:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1453E07EC for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr12 with SMTP id dr12so1005323wgb.10 for ; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:48:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ZvKGEXaeREsySA1sEB7x1RhiXNFZrhVf1+7/+61SlEM=; b=RcJa/4XbZT818I6MNXjvIiBOFoC1p2qsLwMq9v183O3hGQ2DR3gq6Ad3luhU0W+fR0 SmG/1Krd4P1B+dpXVRHiW3dlNz4e5lwArSxZzPR8id4MgfwK/RiKdeOue/Zr7i5mTo9R GfQsHrabprNwry7bAZ0uEGYpWK2EjXQ89KFdI= Received: by 10.216.137.147 with SMTP id y19mr7390999wei.34.1328737718663; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:48:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-2-107.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.2.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cs4sm1451284wib.8.2012.02.08.13.48.36 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:48:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:47:46 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package Message-ID: <20120208234746.6ba27c8e@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <201202081645.31544.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <201202081645.31544.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0d36a5d2-8d8b-40a5-8cc1-9d372c949dad X-Archives-Hash: ce3d6e8a0ab44b7b0bd27cc98dcd42e1 On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 +0000 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 07 Feb 2012 17:53:59 walt wrote: > > On 02/07/2012 09:16 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > On Feb 8, 2012 12:03 AM, "walt" > > > > > > wrote: > > >> Now that Pandu has mentioned it, I can edit the google-chrome > > >> ebuild to do what I want :) The part where I install the > > >> obsolete libpng12 in the /opt/google/chrome directory instead > > >> of /usr/lib is the part I'm not sure about. > > > > > > I think you can peek into libpng12's ebuild, and transfer the > > > relevant parts (e.g. those retrieving the source and doing the > > > compile), and adapt the installation parts. > > > > > > Don't forget to put your custom ebuild in your local overlay, lest > > > emerge --sync will happily 'revert' your ebuild to what it was :-) > > > > Thanks. I've learned something from this thread in spite of > > myself :p > > Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium? Chrome is a binary blob Chromium is built from source There used to be a chromium-bin a while ago but the maintainer got fed up with the hassles of building the damn thing for multiple arches and gave up. The OP *did* say in his opening post that he was fed up with the multi-hour emerge when building chromium, hence his desire to tweak the chrome ebuild -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com