On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Ionut Biru <ibiru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/09/2009 02:47 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> I did have a closer look at chromium recently and it did improve a lot. >> Even >> though it's called "beta" it is really usable and feature complete. >> >> There is quite a high demand for it (the binary version in AUR has neraly >> 800 >> votes). I would like to make a peoper package for it and provide that in >> our >> repo. >> >> The AUR packages are either svn trunk builds or repackaged ubuntu debs >> with >> ugly symlinks to libs with other so names. >> >> My idea is to build a tar out of their svn tag and build a clean package >> with >> that. >> >> What do you think? (it's about chromium btw. and not Chrome which is >> Google's >> build with some "extras") >> >> > i don't have any objections about having a chromium package in our repos. > Replying to Arch General since I don't have permission to post on Arch-Dev-Public. I guess this article may be useful: http://lwn.net/Articles/364528/rss It's about some thoughts of a Fedora Packager trying to package Chromium. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa
