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* Re: [gentoo-user] Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies?
  @ 2013-01-31  1:35 99%   ` Mike Gilbert
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From: Mike Gilbert @ 2013-01-31  1:35 UTC (permalink / raw
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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.


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