On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 09:30:58PM -0500, William Harrington via blfs-support wrote: > On 2020-03-08 01:22, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: > >
I hadn't thought it necessary to reply to this thread until now, so please allwo me to make one comment on the original post before replying to William's post. > > > > > > > > Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2020 at 7:16 PM > > From: "Χάρης Καραχριστιανίδης via blfs-support" > > <[email protected]> > > To: blfs-support <[email protected]> > > Cc: "Χάρης Καραχριστιανίδης" <[email protected]> > > Subject: [blfs-support] Chromium should be in the book > > After 8.1 Chromium isn't included in the books. It is one of the most > > used browsers (I use ungoogled chromium). Maybe it should be added > > again? In latest Chromium included at least 1 dependency gives 404, so > > even that may not be possible to be installed. > > Χάρης, I've only just realised that you might be trying to build whichever old version was referenced in the 8.1 book - using such an old version in the current "Wild West" internet is a recipe for pain. [...] > > > > Hello, > > > > That just goes to show that you did not read the tickets about > > chromium. I spent a considerable amount of time on many different > > versions of chromium, and it is a real dog to try to get to work. > > Bruce wanted it out of the book, and from a shear maintenance point of > > view, ie the time needed to actually find even their so called stable > > build that would actually build is a nightmare. Not to mention the > > number of vulnerabilities. It really is better to be left out of the > > book, unless someone is prepared to make sure that all of the > > vulnerabilities are patched and that a regular up to date build can be > > achieved. It would require someone to only work on chromium, are you > > offering YOUR time to do that? > > > > Christopher. > > It can be a Hint or have a separate book like CrLFS! Hah! With chromium, a hint will become outdated within weeks. The only way to keep up to date with whichever version is currently labelled as stable is to look at what distros are doing. Maybe https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium might be slightly less painful, I have no idea. I don't agree that chrome/chromium have more vulnerabilities, they just have more researchers and they try to put the critical fixes out quickly rather than waiting for their next scheduled release (firefox - mostly, and qtwebengine always). But coupled with the general churn it becomes impossible. As people can see from the ticket, it is certainly beyond _my_ skills. ĸen -- #define THE_TRUTH_AND_THATS_CUTTIN_ME_OWN_THROAT true Al Viro, complaining about a 'TRUE' macro in staging -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
