public inbox for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:53:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jgrofo$nbd$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGUAJbotckzDhccVtyfgvYpzMNpqpt0g2s7+xp=kYqYsZA@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/07/2012 09:16 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> On Feb 8, 2012 12:03 AM, "walt" <w41ter@gmail.com
> <mailto:w41ter@gmail.com>> wrote:

>>
>> Now that Pandu has mentioned it, I can edit the google-chrome
>> ebuild to do what I want :)  The part where I install the obsolete
>> libpng12 in the /opt/google/chrome directory instead of /usr/lib is
>> the part I'm not sure about.
>>
>
> I think you can peek into libpng12's ebuild, and transfer the
> relevant parts (e.g. those retrieving the source and doing the
> compile), and adapt the installation parts.
>
> Don't forget to put your custom ebuild in your local overlay, lest
> emerge --sync will happily 'revert' your ebuild to what it was :-)

Thanks.  I've learned something from this thread in spite of myself :p






  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-07 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-07  2:42 [gentoo-user] Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package walt
2012-02-07  2:59 ` Jeff Horelick
2012-02-07 16:57   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-02-07 17:15     ` walt
2012-02-07 17:16     ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-07 17:53       ` walt [this message]
2012-02-08 16:45         ` Mick
2012-02-08 21:47           ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-08 22:47             ` walt
2012-02-08 22:58               ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-08 23:08               ` Mick
2012-02-07  3:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='jgrofo$nbd$1@dough.gmane.org' \
    --to=w41ter@gmail.com \
    --cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox