Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 22:47:01 walt wrote: > On 02/08/2012 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 + > > > > Mick wrote: > >> Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium? > > > > Chrome is a binary blob > > Chromium is built from source > > There used to be a c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:47:01 -0800 walt wrote: > On 02/08/2012 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 + > > Mick wrote: > > >> Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium? > > > Chrome is a binary blob > > Chromium is built from source > > There used to be a

[gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-08 Thread walt
On 02/08/2012 01:47 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 + Mick wrote: Must you use Chrome? What's wrong with Chromium? Chrome is a binary blob Chromium is built from source There used to be a chromium-bin a while ago but the maintainer got fed up with the hassles of b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:45:18 + Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 07 Feb 2012 17:53:59 walt wrote: > > On 02/07/2012 09:16 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > On Feb 8, 2012 12:03 AM, "walt" > > > > > > wrote: > > >> Now that Pandu has mentioned it, I can edit the google-chrome > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-08 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 Feb 2012 17:53:59 walt wrote: > On 02/07/2012 09:16 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 8, 2012 12:03 AM, "walt" > > > > wrote: > >> Now that Pandu has mentioned it, I can edit the google-chrome > >> ebuild to do what I want :) The part where I install the o

[gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-07 Thread walt
On 02/07/2012 09:16 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 8, 2012 12:03 AM, "walt" mailto:w41...@gmail.com>> wrote: 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 o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 8, 2012 12:03 AM, "walt" wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 21:59 -0500, Jeff Horelick wrote: > > On 6 February 2012 21:42, walt 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 > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-07 Thread walt
On 02/07/2012 08:57 AM, walt wrote: However, the newer google-chrome package forces the downgrade of libpng to libpng12 for the entire machine Damn, fooled again by the ebuild message after installing libpng12 :( The post-install message announces that I now need to run revdep-rebuild to fix

[gentoo-user] Re: Quick and dirty install of google chrome binary package

2012-02-07 Thread walt
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 21:59 -0500, Jeff Horelick wrote: > On 6 February 2012 21:42, walt 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 lib