I don't use chromium and I don't know what release cycle it has, but can't
those interested in running chromium use an ebuild that tracks the git tree
and updates after every change.
The maintenance burden would be minimal, and any patches could be applied
with /etc/portage/patches.
If something li
On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 3:25 PM Jeff Gazso wrote:
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> That does sound painful.
>
> > - Across the 3 channels, you are looking at roughly 12 releases per month.
> > That's a lot of churn.
>
> * Why build unstable stuff, why not build only stable releases and fix the
> problems once?
That's certainl
Jeff Gazso writes:
> That does sound painful.
>
>> - Across the 3 channels, you are looking at roughly 12 releases per month.
>> That's a lot of churn.
>
> * Why build unstable stuff, why not build only stable releases and fix the
> problems once?
The idea is that you end up fixing stuff befo
That does sound painful.
> - Across the 3 channels, you are looking at roughly 12 releases per
month.
> That's a lot of churn.
* Why build unstable stuff, why not build only stable releases and fix the
problems once?
* Looking at chromium-browser-official and the GitHub mirror, it's unclear
to
m
I think Google does all this intentionally to piss off people trying to
use the "free-er" version of Chrome... let's face it, "their" aim is to
create a one-fits-all spyware named Google Chrome.
Google does not want you to touch their mess.
Google does not want you to even think about going a e
On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 9:09 AM Jeff Gazso wrote:
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> I'm in the process of getting Gentoo dev status. I'm willing to consider
> maintaining www-client/chromium. I have a high core count rack server that
> should be able to handle the build process quite well. Can you give me a list
> of common pai
On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 04:12:22PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
> On 6/7/23 15:09, Jeff Gazso wrote:
> > Can you give me a list
> > of common pain points?
>
> My wish would be a -bin package.
> Even with -j12 it takes here 5-6 hours compile time, which is a pain.
We already "have" one but it's be
Toralf Förster writes:
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> On 6/7/23 15:09, Jeff Gazso wrote:
>> Can you give me a list
>> of common pain points?
>
> My wish would be a -bin package.
> Even with -j12 it takes here 5-6 hours compile time, which is a pain.
That's more work for the maintainer, not l
On 6/7/23 15:09, Jeff Gazso wrote:
Can you give me a list
of common pain points?
My wish would be a -bin package.
Even with -j12 it takes here 5-6 hours compile time, which is a pain.
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I'm in the process of getting Gentoo dev status. I'm willing to consider
maintaining www-client/chromium. I have a high core count rack server that
should be able to handle the build process quite well. Can you give me a
list
of common pain points? If that is a long conversation feel free to email
Alexe Stefan writes:
> My finger slipped in my last mail.
> How do you see how many people are using a package?
Bug reports, mentions on forums, mentions on the mailing list, mentions
on IRC, etc.
Or, to put it another way: when you break it, enough people
shout. Gentoo doesn't have telemetry
My finger slipped in my last mail.
How do you see how many people are using a package?
On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 10:58 AM Alexe Stefan
wrote:
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>
> mie., 7 iun. 2023, 13:56 Sam James a scris:
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>>
>> This becomes more pressing as the vulnerabilities pile up:
>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/907999.
>>
>
mie., 7 iun. 2023, 13:56 Sam James a scris:
>
> This becomes more pressing as the vulnerabilities pile up:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/907999.
>
> Nobody interested at all? We have more than enough people *using* it..
>
>
>
Mike Gilbert writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm throwing in the towel on www-client/chromium. It just isn't any
> fun to maintain, and it's making me feel guilty when I don't give it
> the attention it requires.
I don't blame anyone for running out of stamina with chromium. It's
a massive task and thank
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