David Craven <david@craven.ch> writes:

>> Don't get too excited yet... :)
>
> Packaging chromium is a pain in the ass... There was talk on IRC about
> inox, so I submitted my progress so far.

Tell me about it! I've been secretly maintaining a Chromium branch over
at https://github.com/mbakke/guix/commits/chromium . It's frequently
rebased.

One thing that worries me about Inox is that version 53 is very old and
likely contains known vulnerabilities. Do you know if they backport
fixes? If not, I think we should try to stick with upstream Chromium.

Also, Chromium 54+ have abandoned the "gyp" build system completely in
favor of the "gn" build system. With it, many build flags don't work
properly yet. See the FIXMEs in the HEAD of the above branch :-)

Anyway, great work so far, hopefully we can join efforts and get this in
somehow. I'm not happy with the current build, the 3rd party stuff
should be removed in a source snippet, and some sites tend to just
"hang" infrequently, likely from one of the patches (IPv6 probe?).

Cheers!