From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D45B3138781 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:36:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B55C21C067; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B65521C04D for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f171.google.com (mail-ie0-f171.google.com [209.85.223.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6302433DB84 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:35:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f171.google.com with SMTP id 10so1889689ied.16 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:35:21 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.43.7.7 with SMTP id om7mr5217361icb.25.1359596121577; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:35:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.62.37 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:35:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20130130180924.GA16018@dethkomp> References: <20130130180924.GA16018@dethkomp> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:35:21 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Binary chrome - is it safe in terms of dependencies? From: Mike Gilbert To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: f54ce0eb-fb3a-47ab-8e55-3d1f0e1cc4a3 X-Archives-Hash: 8715dec63073c49ec93ffe8e21d5a1d9 On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Yohan Pereira 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.