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Re:Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google inte... by bubblethink on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:05AM (#18055374)
No, that doesn't fix it. It has always been possible to build chromium, just not in a way that meets fdroid's requirements (i.e., build with a foss stack on their debian vm).

This is the most current fdroid issue from what I can tell: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/378

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Re:Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google inte... by snaky on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:24AM (#18055452)
That's sad Chromium cannot being built without binary Google blobs for now, but that would be much better to have Chromium (ungoogled) in f-droid - with a 'anti-feature' sign - than to not have it at all.
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Re:Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google inte... by bubblethink on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:26AM (#18055463)
It's already there on the bromite repository. If you go to bromite's page, they have an f-droid repo which has both bromite and vanialla chromium. It will not get into fdroid proper until it's fully compliant (given they also get the build resources, which is also challenging)
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Re:Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google inte... by snaky on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:49AM (#18055549)
I wonder whether anyone tried to build it with open-source versions of the ninja and other tools, not blobs?
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