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Date:      Thu, 5 Jan 2012 12:29:28 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Browser
Message-ID:  <20120105122928.3fb9fb76.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20120104221833.61192fed@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <CAHsiZG-op0MO79qaWG2gRLYLeaTKcip8iabQ%2B0AYQVK7iDZ5pg@mail.gmail.com> <201201041259.q04CxBDW054176@fire.js.berklix.net> <CAHHBGkoxn0ic2T2E8HrFV9nEKoF=KByKh0KR8qS0X9Rg58j92g@mail.gmail.com> <20120104221833.61192fed@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 22:18:33 +0000, RW wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:56:38 -0500
> illoai@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 
> > If you have a few hours, lots of RAM, & you'd like to stress-
> > test your system:
> > cd /usr/ports/www/chromium && make install
> 
> 
> Unless things have changed radically that sounds like a bit of an
> exaggeration. Until about 9 months ago I was building it on a 7 year
> old single core athlon in 1.5GB with the work-directory on tmpfs. It
> was still perfectly usable as a desktop.

Well, last time I tried to compile one of Firefox's
recent versions from ports, it demanded to have
access to X during the "make" stage. That was the
point I decided _not_ to continue (as the system
in question didn't have X). Maybe I did something
wrong, maybe I should have dealt with building
options more carefully. But anyway, you type "make"
and the intended web browser wants to access X?
>From within a UID=0 session? Hmmm...

On the other hand, installing google's Chromium
browser went through without that kind of annoying
trouble.



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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