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Re: texmaker, Qt and Chromium


From: Efraim Flashner
Subject: Re: texmaker, Qt and Chromium
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 00:08:50 +0300
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On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 11:00:29PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > AFAIK Chromium doesn't modify any of its bundled software. Would it make
> > sense to create a chromium-source package that replaces the bundled
> > sources with our sources, allowing us to keep the chromium source and
> > the bundled source up-to-date. Then we could use this new
> > 'chromium-source' package as a replacement source for
> > chromium/inox/qtwebengine?
> 
> Are you certain they don’t modify their bundle?  I thought that was the
> whole point for them to bundle things in the first place: to be able to
> modify things without having to coordinate with the various upstreams.
> 
> ~~ Ricardo
> 

I'm not sure, but I assumed it was so that anyone could download the
source and run './configure; make; (sudo) make install' without worrying
about those pesky things known as dependancies.

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