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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:58:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120209005817.314186e9@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jguu15$oej$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:47:01 -0800
walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/08/2012 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 +0000
> > Mick<michaelkintzios@gmail.com>  wrote:
> 
> >> 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
> 
> Heh. I'm often guilty of posting to long threads without reading the
> whole involved thing first.

You're in good company :-)

Done that too - more than once!

> 
> I just learned that 'chromium' still exists, and the reason that
> chromium-bin disappeared from portage.  Not bad work for one thread :)
> 
> 



-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com




  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-08 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-07  2:42 [gentoo-user] Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package walt
2012-02-07  2:59 ` Jeff Horelick
2012-02-07 16:57   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-02-07 17:15     ` walt
2012-02-07 17:16     ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-07 17:53       ` walt
2012-02-08 16:45         ` Mick
2012-02-08 21:47           ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-08 22:47             ` walt
2012-02-08 22:58               ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-02-08 23:08               ` Mick
2012-02-07  3:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan

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