On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 21:59 -0500, Jeff Horelick wrote: > On 6 February 2012 21:42, walt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I tried and liked google chrome for a few months until I got tired > > of the multi-hour compile every week or so. The chrome-binary ebuild > > was removed a while ago, I'm guessing because of library version > > conflicts, but I dunno for sure. > you seem to have missed a very simple way to do all this: > > emerge google-chrome Very interesting, thanks for pointing that out. What I missed is that in recent months the former (home-compiled) chrome package was removed and the chrome-binary package was renamed to google-chrome (I suppose the google brand was supposed to clue me in that I'm installing the google build rather than the gentoo build). However, the newer google-chrome package forces the downgrade of libpng to libpng12 for the entire machine, which I don't want, so I'll continue to use my simple home-brew method. Now that Pandu has mentioned it, I can edit the google-chrome ebuild to do what I want :) The part where I install the obsolete libpng12 in the /opt/google/chrome directory instead of /usr/lib is the part I'm not sure about.
