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On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:32:32AM +0000, Adam Bishop wrote:
> Google also supply RPM's directly. See
> https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/?hl=en&platform=linux
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> IIRC Chrome statically links a lot of its dependancies, so there's a
> strong chance that the Fedora/OpenSUSE build will just work.
Yes, but he asked explicitly for Chromium and besides that, the Google
Chrome RPM's are very bad from a packaging point of view.
I'm giving talks about RPM packaging and I also have a talk called
"Surviving the RPM Package and Repository Jungle". In that talk
I use the Google Chrome RPM as an example of a very bad package.
For example, ut has a nearly 1000 lines post-install script, it
lacks 73 out of 93 dependencies, it installs 20 unpackaged files, etc.
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