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by snek 2431 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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> 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.