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Sorry, I didn't say it clearly. I want to use the distro (Alpine) packaged Chromium, which links to musl. Not some random Chromium build I found on the Interne
by rfoo 4y ago
Sorry, I didn't say it clearly.
I want to use the distro (Alpine) packaged Chromium, which links to musl. Not some random Chromium build I found on the Internet. Having to use a glibc Chromium is already too far for me.
Do you suggest that in order to support Widevine, a distro (Alpine) should also build Chromium, Firefox and co also with glibc instead of the default (musl), or provide two varaints?
Even when they have a Chromium with musl as libc working perfectly fine, except no proprietary DRM support?
I'm okay with running a proprietary binary, linked to glibc, by installing the glibc alongside.
I'm not okay with having to randomly change other packages already in my system (in this case, my browser) to glibc variant.
Edit: Oh, and anything Chromium depends on have to had a glibc variant.
- coldtea 4y ago>Do you suggest that in order to support Widevine, a distro (Alpine) should also build Chromium, Firefox and co also with glibc instead of the default (musl), or provide two varaints? Yes, absolutely. I'm not suggesting that it's a good thing that this is needed. But I do suggest that it needs to be done. Will, in the sense that, otherwise, people running Alpine will have to say "OK, as it is, we can forget Widevine and Netflix/Spotify" and leave it at that. That said, since this is something many Alpine users will want, I'd expect to be some known "semi-official" or "reputable third party" build for this, not just "some random Chromium found on the Internet". If not, personally I'd skip Alpine. >Even when they have a Chromium with musl as libc working perfectly fine, except no proprietary DRM support? Well, even then, since this doesn't change the fact that Widevine and thus Spotify/Netflix wont work.