It's useless to have N versions of the same library on your system. I prefer that my favorite distro takes care of updating one particular library if there is a security bug than having to wait for google to take care about it. It's what is done in gentoo: http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2010/08/www-clientchromium-no... Currently, it uses the system libraries for:

• bzip2,

• codesighs,

• cros,

• icu,

• jemalloc,

• lcov,

• libevent,

• libjpeg,

• libpng,

• libxml,

• libxslt,

• lzma_sdk,

• molokocacao,

• ocmock,

• pyftpdlib,

• simplejson,

• tlslite.

As TODO, there is still zlib due to an issue during compilation.

It would also be great to have V8 as a different project so that it could be used outside of chrome with much less pain.