Fedora's missing Chromium updates

Posted Mar 4, 2022 17:01 UTC (Fri) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051)
Parent article: Fedora's missing Chromium updates

Just FYI, I've been happy with Gentoo's meta-packaging of Chromium for quite a long time. Do I use the 'proprietary-codec' and 'widevine' USE flags? Yes. But I like being able to choose my cross. :) The "effort" for me is compiling it, but that's one command. And does it take a while? Yes, even though I have distcc set up, it takes 5-8 hours. But that's not *my* time - that's the computer's time. And, with a few exceptions over the years, It Just Works(TM).

Perhaps the Fedora devs should make a build-farm with a Gentoo base to build their binaries reliably? If it was good enough for Google themselves to use Gentoo build facilities to build ChromeOS and ChromiumOS and their packages, then they can perhaps benefit, too. :)

Oh, and they can disable 'proprietary-codec' USE flag and make their legal teams happier.

Cheers!

Fedora's missing Chromium updates

Posted Mar 4, 2022 17:36 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

Either that, or have a common project among different distros to produce the source that gives you the options that distros want. That said, I think part of Gentoo's ability to build Chromium well is due to it being able to update system library packages to versions without matching ABIs by rebuilding other packages when necessary. (Also, possibly, the use of slots to let Chromium use a version of a system library that Chromium has been tested with and requires, but no other software in the distro has been tested with yet.)

Fedora's missing Chromium updates

Posted Mar 4, 2022 17:41 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I swore off Chromium around the time the tarball suddenly jumped to over half a gigabyte, several years ago. Not that I couldn't build it, but that was one of a hundred signals that the project was becoming more of an affliction than an application. I prefer it when the tools I use to communicate with the outside world aren't making headlines.

Fedora's missing Chromium updates

Posted Mar 5, 2022 1:09 UTC (Sat) by vimja (subscriber, #91577) [Link] (2 responses)

I must admin, I stopped building Chromium on all my Gentoo machines with the exception of one particularly powerful desktop I use. It takes just sooo long to build. Other large programs like Firefox, Libreoffice or even LLVM and Rust are built very quickly in comparison. And it needs to be updated so often. In the end I felt it simply wasn't worth it any longer for me.

Even on that powerful desktop I use, I had to resort to reducing the number of parallel build jobs (-j) through package.env because the system would OOM otherwise. Such a pain :/

Fedora's missing Chromium updates

Posted Mar 7, 2022 8:47 UTC (Mon) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link] (1 responses)

I have the same experience. I do not build Chromium any more on my Gentoo systems and in fact considering it does not have significantly more features than Firefox I consider the Chrome/Chromium codebase incredibly bloated because it takes so much longer to build.

Fedora's missing Chromium updates

Posted Mar 7, 2022 9:39 UTC (Mon) by adobriyan (subscriber, #30858) [Link]

> I do not build Chromium any more on my Gentoo systems

Chromium debuginfo build is a must test workload for anyone touching kernel swap code.