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

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

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

There are two packages of chrome on repository, one is the binary
version officially made available by Google and another is the open
source version chromium.

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.

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Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com

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

[Yohan Pereira]

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.

I have since migrated to chromium (on account of getting a more
powerful processor). The chromium compile took a hell of a long time on
my old dual core. Even on my fx8150 it still takes about an hour.


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

[Mike Gilbert]

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.

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

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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

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

[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.

-- 
Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/

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

[Nilesh Govindrajan]

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Well, many times you can't really anticipate everything.

I had my libreoffice-bin pdf import broken for two months because some
shared library had got upgraded against which it wasn't linked.

(excuse for top post, typing from mobile)

--
Nilesh Govindrajan
http://nileshgr.com
On Jan 31, 2013 5:38 PM, "Nuno Silva" <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
> http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
>
>
>

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

[Nuno Silva]

On 2013-01-31, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:

>On Jan 31, 2013 5:38 PM, "Nuno Silva" <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> Well, many times you can't really anticipate everything.
>
> I had my libreoffice-bin pdf import broken for two months because some
> shared library had got upgraded against which it wasn't linked.

I guess that sometimes this kind of issues may be harder to spot, or
require harder fixes (see for example the current state of LISP where
some packages require ASDF 2 but the stable one is ASDF 1, AFAIK the
stabilization of ASDF 2 is pending because some eclasses have to be
changed), but even then I'd suppose this is what the unstable arches are
for.

-- 
Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/