Well, many times you can't really anticipate everything. I had my libreoffice-bin pdf import broken for two months because some shared library had got upgraded against which it wasn't linked.
(excuse for top post, typing from mobile) -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com On Jan 31, 2013 5:38 PM, "Nuno Silva" <nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt> wrote: > On 2013-01-31, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > >> 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. > >> > > > > Sounds good. I guess I'll switch to binary chrome then. > > Also, I suppose that, if there were library incompatibilities, the > package would never go stable, or would at least, like Yohan said, lead > to a block/version dependency. > > -- > Nuno Silva (aka njsg) > http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/ > > >
