On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:47:01 -0800 walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/08/2012 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 +0000 > > Mick<michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium? > > > Chrome is a binary blob > > Chromium is built from source > > There used to be a chromium-bin a while ago but the maintainer got > > fed up with the hassles of building the damn thing for multiple > > arches and gave up. > > > > The OP *did* say in his opening post that he was fed up with the > > multi-hour emerge when building chromium, hence his desire to tweak > > the chrome ebuild > > Heh. I'm often guilty of posting to long threads without reading the > whole involved thing first.
You're in good company :-) Done that too - more than once! > > I just learned that 'chromium' still exists, and the reason that > chromium-bin disappeared from portage. Not bad work for one thread :) > > -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
