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 1RvGUy-0000gS-Ly for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 387C2E0663; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:00:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF5D0E060F for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhi8 with SMTP id hi8so857160wib.40 for ; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:10 -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=gy5B1QjXWwHHJJJmg1IB0Kr8tj/2IHC/08vnSkpliYg=; b=n6YBvmfhNnSVbikQ/vAl2xF2UFqoS8FBLj9MTUxmFaQs22BwmluFZlLlOPZXFaFous n5Ic7ub5ShYSiUZh7MaScndE5kHMi5PuaSlfILeVtAE4NEeGpi/yZLkMQRxniBeZIzWb MNkD7BGF0FnzYmMo4VEJUcxD0N6OsAzHINnnk= Received: by 10.180.86.105 with SMTP id o9mr43815343wiz.4.1328741950120; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:10 -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 ex2sm2001614wib.1.2012.02.08.14.59.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:58:17 +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: <20120209005817.314186e9@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <201202081645.31544.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20120208234746.6ba27c8e@khamul.example.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: 438642de-b324-4401-ab94-6e5fb13c5f22 X-Archives-Hash: b0073fcfc4a067ea33d7bbaf51276b01 On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:47:01 -0800 walt wrote: > On 02/08/2012 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 +0000 > > Mick 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