Multiple bugs have been filed about build errors of net-libs/webkit-gtk. Apparently, this package needs a lot of RAM to build and the build tends to fail randomly on smaller machines (even with -j1 set). Would it be possible to provide a binary package for net-libs/webkit-gtk as an alternative to the normal ebuild? On older/smaller systems, it's almost impossible to compile net-libs/webkit-gtk nowadays (and I personally have quite a lot of small and/or old machines to take care of ;-) ... would be really nice.
No, it's not really possible. Unlike firefox, chrome and so on, webkit-gtk is a library, not a browser, with various USE flag options and things depend on it (unlike on firefox and chrome) - no-one uses webkit-gtk package provided things directly. Theoretically if we build support for most options into that package, it might be possible, but that needs then always creating binary packages on each bump, have the infrastructure for it, etc. Either way, this is a long-term discussion on the duplicate bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 526998 ***
Oh okay, I didn't see such a bug already exists. Thanks for the info, I'll read on there!
