On 2013-01-31, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > 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.
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/
