What I don't understand is _why_ RPM Fusion made that change. Not saying it is without merit, just that I don't understand why a total rebuild is preferred.
I would also be interested in seeing the patches where you set a specific component to be shared while the others were static. Thanks, Tom On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:54 AM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: > Tom Callaway wrote: > > So, you might be asking, why does Fedora build in shared mode? There are > > two main reasons: > > 1) To enable users to be able to swap out the media components from > Fedora > > with a "freeworld" version. > > That reason is obsolete. RPM Fusion replaced chromium-libs-media-freeworld > with a full chromium-freeworld rebuild. > > > 2) To keep the size down on the chrome-remote-desktop subpackage (since > it > > can share the "internal libs" from chromium). > > That sounds valid, but is it worth the performance issues? > > I would recommend abandoning the component mode build. QtWebEngine has > never > been built that way. > > By the way, it is also possible to hack up the GN setup so that only some > specific component is built as a component (which could solve point 1 if > it > were still needed). For QtWebEngine, I used to do that with V8 on 32-bit > x86 > when I still had an x87 build and an SSE2 build of it. But that of course > requires patching. And RPM Fusion no longer tries to replace the media > component anyway (making point 1 moot). > > Kevin Kofler > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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