On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 04/05/12 01:37, Alec Warner wrote:
>> I would argue that the Chrome Team's idea of what a 'WEB BROWSER' is
>> and your idea of what a 'WEB BROWSER' is are vastly divergent. That is
>> totally OK and you are free to use whatever software you prefer. I
>> somehow doubt Chrom{e,ium} is losing tons of users due to their udev /
>> dbus / etc requirements.
>
> If dbus and libudev are just for fringe features might be nice disable
> them. I wonder if there isn't already a setting for it. chrome for
> android won't use them anyway.
>I don't see a user-controllable setting for dbus or udev. Rather, it checks for OS == "Linux". My 2 cents: The Chromium project really doesn't have any motivation to make it optional since their end product is Google Chrome and they target a given version of Ubuntu. I think a patch to make them optional might be accepted, but it probably isn't going to happen otherwise.
