What's going on with the Chromium browser packages ?

Question

They are too many !
1 bin32-cxchromium--> An old chromium package. Do we need it ?
2 chromium-browser-{buildnumber}~-svn{date}{upstreamrev} --> it's the repackaged deb of a rebuilt svn chromium. 32bit only.
3 chromium-browser-dev --> OK. it's the same as the previous one + 64bit package. So (2) isn't needed ?
4 chromium-browser-inspector --> Don't really know what this is.
5 chromium-continuous / fresh / lkgr --> Don't they provide the same package ? They drag the .zip from build.chromium.org. What if they provide different svn versions? In an experimental browser, don't expect much stability, so why should we have now three different stages of the svn history of chromium ?
6 chromium-snapshot --> same as chromium-continuous. 32bit only.
7 chromium-snapshot-64 --> it's the native 64bit package of chromium-snapshot. 64bit only.
8 chromium-snapshot-64-last --> Don't really know what this is. It seems the same as (7).
9 chromium-browser-svn -->The only one that provides the source for building.
Well, they are too many. Some of them provide the same thing, others should be merged.
What we should need:
One PKGBUILD to repackage the deb package from ppa launchpad for both architectures. Too difficult to create a PKGBUILD that will (with the aid of wget or curl or even elinks) automatically check the latest version possible.
One PKGBUILD to repackage the zip package from build.chromium.org. I have a suggestion for this.
One PKGBUILD to make an archlinux package from sources. It already exists, this should be the base for the future chrome (stable) package.
Not all of these.
Just a suggestion
Last edited by flamelab (2009-09-04 01:13:32)

Answer 1

VII wrote:
As far as I'm concern, Chrome is the spy-ware browser...
But not a spy-ware for a specific type of users, but one for a major company like Google. Which means, you don't have to worry about Credit Card frauds or something like that... There's an old saying: "information is power" - Google being the biggest marketing corporation on the Internet has a very good use for this power. So, they won't harm users in any way, that would be against their "current" interests... They just want to gather data regarding users interests.
As you all know by now, at current times Internet is the best place for that:
-you want to buy something, you browse the Internet
-you're interested in some future gadgets, you browse the Internet
-you're looking for a specific product (from any domain) you browse the Internet
-you're looking for a specific place for a vacation, you browse the Internet.
... and so on.
Until Chrome was released, their search engine (Google) and their mail client (Gmail) was a very good tool for that, yet with Google Chrome they have even more control which obviously, can lead to more accurate results. This will increase their profits significantly, as mentioned above - without hurting those involved.
It's all up to you as user, if you agree with that or not... which is obviously coved by their EULA Yet, I strongly believe 99.9% of all Goggle Chrome users never looked at it (same as they proceed with any EULA).
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I use Firefox for general usage, yet I also have Chromium installed for YouTube - since under Linux 64 bit flash doesn't work as wanted under Firefox, yet works pretty decent under Chromium. YouTube is also part of Google, so it makes no difference. And yes, I one of those rare people that don't accept their entire policy and also read EULA's.
and how does your rant against Google add anything to this 7 month old thread which was created only to clarify the hassles about so many chromium packages in AUR
Last edited by Inxsible (2010-06-23 14:34:05)