Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-11 Thread James Cloos
MG == Mike Gilbert floppymas...@gmail.com writes: MG Chromium tarballs are actually around 140 MB. It would be MG interesting to see if we can trim that tarball down. Woops. Misremembered. It is qt that is over 200 MB. On the plus side it is going down. Chromium 5 was ~160 MB. MG For

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-10 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 3/5/11 11:05 AM, Duncan wrote: What about handling chromium-bin the same way amd64 handles grub-static? They create a standard binpkg of the normal grub ebuild (using standardized USE flags, of course), using that as the source tarball for the grub-static ebuild, which then simply

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-10 Thread James Cloos
PH == Paweł Hajdan, phajdan...@gentoo.org writes: PH That's the chromium-bin, really. The difference is that chromium has PH more deps and takes more time to compile than grub. Also, it has much PH more frequent releases, and almost every stable release is a security PH update. And every one of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-10 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:04 PM, James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com wrote: PH == Paweł Hajdan, phajdan...@gentoo.org writes: PH That's the chromium-bin, really. The difference is that chromium has PH more deps and takes more time to compile than grub. Also, it has much PH more frequent releases,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-10 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 3/10/11 9:33 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: Chromium tarballs are actually around 140 MB. It would be interesting to see if we can trim that tarball down. Oh yes, we can. I guess the biggest problem is testing, but we can certainly remove more from the tarball. If anyone's interested, it's

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/05/2011 04:41 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Alex Alexanderwi...@gentoo.org wrote: Anyway, compilation on a modern system shouldn't take more than an hour. ~15-20 minutes on a quad i5. Clearly your definition of modern doesn't include my server... :) Just

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/05/2011 12:00 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/05/2011 04:41 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Alex Alexanderwi...@gentoo.org wrote: Anyway, compilation on a modern system shouldn't take more than an hour. ~15-20 minutes on a quad i5. Clearly your definition of

[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-05 Thread Duncan
Paweł Hajdan, Jr. posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:23:34 +0100 as excerpted: On 3/5/11 12:58 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: I can also give you a binpkg from one of my chroots :P It sounds like a possible option. We could then advertise those binpkgs on the project page, or make them semi-official.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-05 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/05/2011 12:00 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/05/2011 04:41 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Alex Alexanderwi...@gentoo.org wrote: Anyway, compilation on a modern system shouldn't take more than an hour. ~15-20 minutes on a quad i5.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 03/05/2011 04:41 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: I need to make sure I have /var/tmp/portage symlinked back to a non-tmpfs location whenever I build it or else the system pretty-much dies from a lack of RAM. Then I'd say

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: www-client/chromium-bin

2011-03-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: It seems you correct the first time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmpfs I found the same examples in other paces as well.  One is in the mount man page. While this is drifting off-topic this is not the case. You can limit the