Bug 320003

Summary:	Lighten www-client/chromium package
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	niogic <niogic>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	phajdan.jr
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description niogic 2010-05-16 16:26:46 UTC

I think it's a waste of space that we download a 163MB tarball, that become 823M when extracted.
Specially if you use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage

I inspected the files and 612M is for third_party.

Since gentoo most often use system libs, why not to wipe out libraries that won't be used and repackage the source?

Comment 1 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-18 06:42:41 UTC

We still need most things from third_party. Especially WebKit and icu. If you're not happy with the current state of things (which I can easily understand), please contact upstream. However, I think that bugs are filed to unbundle most of the remaining libraries.