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Rüpel Guru


Joined: 06 Nov 2002 Posts: 316 Location: Berlin/Germany
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:23 pm Post subject: chromium stabilization |
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Guys,
all is great and such ...
... but the frequency of new stable versions of www-client/chromium really pi**** me off. I'm on an old computer and compiling chromium takes me >8 hours! And there is no chromium-bin ebuild.
I literally *fear* every emerge --sync, it might *again* include a new stable chromium version.
Yes, buy a new computer, yes, Ctrl-C is an option,yes, I know masking, yes, upstream is releasing like crazy, but the stable kernel is 3.3.8 and I'm pretty happy with it.
Is there a chance the stabilization process for www-client/chromium might slow down a little bit?
pretty please ...
just my 2 cents _________________ :wq |
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platojones Veteran


Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 1592 Location: Just over the horizon
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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One other option is to switch to www-client/google-chrome...it's a bin package, so no compiling and I don't think it get's updated as often. I use that on my netbook, because compile times are atrocious. It works very well.
As far as regular chromium goes...I like the latest and greatest always....so I hope they keep them coming. Of course, I have a new machine that knocks it out in < 40 minutes. |
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Rüpel Guru


Joined: 06 Nov 2002 Posts: 316 Location: Berlin/Germany
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:42 am Post subject: |
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www-client/google-chrome - that sounds like the solution to me! thank you very much!  _________________ :wq |
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kimmie Guru


Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 531 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Both google-chrome and chromium get updated nearly every time there's a bump upstream... else how would you get all those security patches? Credit to the devs for keeping up. But yeah, recompiling chromium is a bit of a pain.
A bonus from using google-chrome instead of chromium is that you'll get the built-in PepperF API flash, which is more up to date and secure than the netscape plugin flash. If you're only using chrome, you can then unmerge www-plugins/adobe-flash altogether. If you want to keep it around for another browser, you can still make sure it's disabled for google-chrome by going to chrome://plugins and disabling the NSAPI flash. |
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djdunn l33t


Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 765 Location: Arrakis
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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eh if you watch lots of videos, they get laggy with pepper flash on fullscreen that adobe flash doesnt do for me _________________ A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
-The First Law of Mentat |
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John R. Graham Administrator


Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 9802 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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