"It has also gained a reputation as being difficult for Linux distributions to package and build: Chromium has a complex build system, the project bundles many of its dependencies, and it has frequent releases. All of that, plus user complaints, has led the maintainers of the Gentoo Chromium package to give up on trying to maintain the package."

"It is worth noting that Chromium is currently not available as a binary package from Gentoo due to problems with building the package with proprietary codecs."