Hi, Is it possible that the stable Chromium builds be moved to an ebuild called "chrome", with the same icons as Chrome? Similarly to what already happens with Firefox. I'm adding the icon pack from Google's as an attachment. Thanks for looking at this. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 236093 [details] Chrome icons
? Chromium is open-source, Chrome is not. I may also not understand properly your proposal.
There are more differences between chromium and chrome than just the icons; the only way that chrome can be added is by using the Google-provided binary .deb or .rpm files. This would be a new package, and not an adaption of the existing chromium ebuild, and there's already a request for that. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 272805 ***
I see. Thanks. Sorry for submitting it. Best regards
Sorry to be bothering you again but just noted the executable for Chromium build is "chrome". Does Google really have such a distinction between Chromium and Chrome and wouldn't it be better to have both the bin and non-bin versions named "Chrome"? It does simplify looking for the ebuild and IMHO Chromium only made much sense when it wasn't ported fully to Linux. Please think about this, if you think it's feasible. Best regards
There are 2 different softwares : A) Google Chrome, closed source, available from google website: http://www.google.com/chrome?hl=en B) Chromium, that is an open source version of Chrome BUT these two have many differences, read [1]. Clearly, A != B For ease of installation on smaller systems, Gentoo provides a third option: C) ebuilds for a -bin version of B), which is nothing more than the builds of snapshots of the code produced available at [2] (and a few other things, like not using all shipped libs). Relation between B) and C) is pretty much the same as between www-clients/mozilla-firefox and www-clients/firefox-bin, AFAIK. Status: A) Not in portage: you will find ebuilds fot it in bug #324865 B) in portage: www-clients/chromium C) in portage: www-clients/chromium-bin [1] http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google-chrome-chromium-and-google.html [2] http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/
I see, thank you for explaining it. I searched before posting but hadn't found anything useful, only the mentions to RLZ and little else. Thanks again. Best regards, Tiago
