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

2011-03-11 Thread James Cloos
> "MG" == Mike Gilbert 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 comparison, Firefo

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 src/to

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 wrote: >> "PH" == Paweł Hajdan, 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 r

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

2011-03-10 Thread James Cloos
> "PH" == Paweł Hajdan, 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 those chro

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 eb

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 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 size of a tmpf

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 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 you hav

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 Alexander wrote: Anyway, compilation on a modern system shouldn't take more than an hour. ~15-20 minutes on a quad i5. Clearly your defin

[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-offi

[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 Alexander 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 in

[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 Alexander 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 checked and the last