From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com>
To: Gentoo User Mailing List <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies?
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:26:14 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHgBc-tcm8Pj5TN3gN_vW+ZkVep0LRmvhR=Ffq4aESoDOPTv_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0EP43p+BpbZcQSTDt=fSOojnC2wJMkaSMJGT7N_D3Y+3CkKg@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-31 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-30 17:39 [gentoo-user] Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies? Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-01-30 18:09 ` Yohan Pereira
2013-01-31 1:35 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-01-31 6:56 ` Nilesh Govindrajan [this message]
2013-01-31 12:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno Silva
2013-01-31 12:26 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-01-31 16:30 ` Nuno Silva
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