On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Yohan Pereira <[email protected]> > 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. -- Nilesh Govindrajan http://nileshgr.com
