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* Re: [gentoo-user] Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies?
  @ 2013-01-31  6:56 99%     ` Nilesh Govindrajan
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From: Nilesh Govindrajan @ 2013-01-31  6:56 UTC (permalink / raw
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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.

--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com


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