On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Yohan Pereira <yohan.pere...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30/01/13 at 11:09pm, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> Since Gentoo updates libraries very quickly, I'm wondering if it is >> safe to use the binary version? Has anyone faced library breakages on >> this? >> >> Chromium is easily recompiled with new libraries and you don't have a >> broken browser, which won't really be the case with the binary >> version. > > I've used the binary version (google-chrome) for a while and never > had any breakages. I guess if there's a library update that could > potentially break google-chrome the gentoo devs would add a blocker so > you wont be able to install the 2 at the same time. >
Or I can just bundle a copy of the necessary libraries, similar to what I have done for libudev.so.0.