[Bug 265180] www/chromium: actually use the system-installed ICU

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=265180

--- Comment #2 from Mikhail T. <mi@ALDAN.algebra.com> ---
(In reply to Robert Nagy from comment #1)

> built-in ICU has several modifications

If these modifications are good and useful, Google can/should submit them to
IBM for inclusion into ICU releases. If IBM are too slow to process the
contribution, FreeBSD can incorporate the changes ourselves -- they can be
added (as a patch) to our devel/icu -- to benefit ALL of ICU-using software.
Plenty of precedent there.

To have ports use their own versions -- of ANYTHING -- is not right (see link
above). The actual work on unbundling may be substantial -- which would
explain, why it hasn't happened yet. But that such unbundling is a goal, is
beyond dispute.

Chromium port is not the first to stumble into this -- OpenOffice.org, for
example, was quite notorious too some years ago.

> The same goes for all the other deps that are picked up internally

This view is held by a number of people, but FreeBSD Ports have a
clearly-stated policy to the contrary:

https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/10.1-RELEASE/usr/local/share/doc/freebsd/en/books/porters-handbook/bundled-libs.html

Ideally, we'll get to the point, where the entire third_party/ subdirectory is
not even extracted from the upstream's tar-ball.

> there have been several incompatibility issues previously

Frankly, this is FUD :-)

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