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by choeger 2435 days ago
Yeah. Four commands. The first one downloads binaries from the internet. If I was inclined to do so, I would not need to build in the first place ;).

Give it a try with the current HEAD of their home-grown and undocumented build tool and see how far you get.

And regarding the deterministic builds: I call bullshit. They just don't want to follow the different packaging guidelines from the different operating systems, so they repackage everything. Now I have to trust them to keep all these dependencies up-to-date and I have to accept the unecessary bloat? No way.
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snek 2435 days ago
> [build process]

I agree, the chromium build tooling is unfriendly af.

> I call bullshit

Lot of works goes into deterministic builds, have fun going down this rabbit hole: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=314403

> Now I have to trust them to keep all these dependencies up-to-date

Looks like it rolls on average every 10-20 minutes: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/HEAD/DEP...

> and I have to accept the unecessary bloat?

Ah yes, because all operating systems ship with a pristine installation of the latest pdfium.

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choeger 2435 days ago
> Lot of works goes into deterministic builds

That has nothing to do with their dependency management. In fact, if you link against system libraries, it should be simpler to get deterministic builds, as you have to build less.

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