[gentoo-user] Re: Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies?

[<nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> (Nuno Silva)]

On 2013-01-31, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Yohan Pereira
>> <yohan.pereira@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 30/01/13 at 11:09pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>>>> Since Gentoo updates libraries very quickly, I'm wondering if it is
>>>> safe to use the binary version? Has anyone faced library breakages on
>>>> this?
>>>>
>>>> Chromium is easily recompiled with new libraries and you don't have a
>>>> broken browser, which won't really be the case with the binary
>>>> version.
>>>
>>> I've used the binary version (google-chrome) for a while and never
>>> had any breakages. I guess if there's a library update that could
>>> potentially break google-chrome the gentoo devs would add a blocker so
>>> you wont be able to install the 2 at the same time.
>>>
>>
>> Or I can just bundle a copy of the necessary libraries, similar to
>> what I have done for libudev.so.0.
>>
>
> Sounds good. I guess I'll switch to binary chrome then.

Also, I suppose that, if there were library incompatibilities, the
package would never go stable, or would at least, like Yohan said, lead
to a block/version dependency.

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