Gentoo Gives Up on Chromium After Years of Maintainer Burnout

Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package

Gentoo has declared "last rites" for its Chromium package, effectively abandoning it after years of struggling to keep up with upstream churn, bundled dependencies, and hundreds of weekly CVEs. Maintainer Sam James cited burnout and the difficulty of packaging Chromium from source, noting it takes over six hours a week just to compile. The package is now masked, but users can still adopt it before the last-rites period ends on October 24.