Alpine Linux

Jeff Bilyk wrote:

Midori works, just some small things about it's UI that are a bit annoying for me

Just curious, what do you find annying in the UI in midori?

A big thing for me is status of currently loading pages. Other than a rotating icon in top right corner, there's no output for what is going on for page loads. Since the primary location where I use my Alpine X-windows testing box is on a shared connection through an authenticated proxy (which seems to have more timeouts recently for me), I'm never sure if something in Midori is hanging or if the proxy has stopped responding for me.

Actually, come to think of it, that's the only UI quirk that's annoying. The other issues as mentioned above seem to be related to the authenticated proxy that I've got to use where the Alpine box is, and I can work with the department that handles the proxy to work out some of those issues.

As I mentioned in the original post, if the build is overly complicated or troublesome, don't worry about it...

Looked at prereq packages. I think this is what is missing. Since they're Ubuntu package names, will have to see what they provide, see if there's an existing alpine package that provides the same, and if not, then make the prereqs first:

g++-multilib >=4.2
libasound2-dev
libgconf2-dev
libgnome-keyring-dev
libcairo2-dev
libcupsys2-dev
libpam0g-dev
libgl1-mesa-dev
libglu1-mesa-dev
libxss-dev

Note to self (for when I find time to make an APKBUILD): http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxFasterBuilds

the dependencies are available but i am not sure if this is really worth the effort when we have firefox 3.6 in tree already.

Agreed. When the ticket was created, FF wasn't there (as you know), i just wanted something that handled authenticating proxies a little better than Midori (which FF does), since I have an Alpine testing box at work too. I think we can close this ticket, and if I feel like messing around with Chromium, I can build it whenever.