Use case: Having and using my main Gentoo~unstable installation, I also installed Debian-testing in a parallel partition. I want to support friends and use Debian sometime. But there is no actual stable chromium there. Though I could use google-chrome ... I would like to have a Gentoo compiled actual chromium-17 residing in /opt which I can mount when using my Debian installation. Obstacle is: Some libs not the same in Debian. For instance icu lacks behind. --- I am just compiling an edited chromium ebuild with --use-system-XXX=0. And an /opt/chromium-browser as installation place. I am hoping this will work ... --- My feature request is a new USE flag: multidistro - enable an /opt installation of chromium for use with parallel Linux installations By the way, such a feature would be desirable for me also for thunderbird, firefox, libreoffice etc, some more applications where I can have common data in private use and therefore I need to have the same package main-version installed.
Hi, please have a look at the Prefix project (http://prefix.gentoo.org/).
@Justin, sure it is possible to launch a second Gentoo-ebuild-directed compilation of chromium under my Debian installation using Gentoo-prefix. Instead I have in mind an easy method for users of what Geentoo maintainers of the various package-bin ebuilds do.
I have no interest in maintaining such a thing.
How can I get the Gentoo internal ebuilds which are uses to build the various package-bin ?
(In reply to comment #4) > How can I get the Gentoo internal ebuilds > which are uses to build the various package-bin ? quickpkg but be carefull not to clash with your debian libs.
(In reply to comment #0) > My feature request is a new USE flag: > > multidistro - enable an /opt installation of chromium for use with parallel > Linux installations Sorry, no. USE flag is not the right fix for this problem.
