From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies?
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:35:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP43p+BpbZcQSTDt=fSOojnC2wJMkaSMJGT7N_D3Y+3CkKg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130130180924.GA16018@dethkomp>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-31 1:36 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 [this message]
2013-01-31 6:56 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
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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