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Re: Packaging a free Firefox
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Christopher Lemmer Webber |
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Re: Packaging a free Firefox |
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Thu, 17 May 2018 10:10:27 -0500 |
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Nils Gillmann writes:
> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes:
>> Hello Katherine,
>>
>> Katherine Cox-Buday <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>> > E.g. I've seen several people in this thread mention they had already,
>> > or were trying to, package Firefox (myself included). Had there been an
>> > official non-libre channel, this work might not have been duplicated.
>>
>> There will never be an “official” non-libre channel in that Guix as a
>> project will not provide such a channel.
>>
>> Now, Firefox *is* free software, so there’s could be an official
>> “firefox” package, but in essence, it would have to incorporate pretty
>> much the same changes that IceCat provides.
>>
>> I wonder why IceCat is based on an ESR, and what it would take to have
>> it follow Firefox releases more closely.
>
> I am not involved or speaking for Icecat, but ESR is moving slower than
> Firefox "master" channel. This alone is good enough to base on it for
> long-term support when you are a downstream vendor such as Torbrowser,
> Icecat, or a simple company running a site-specific Firefox.
It would be really nice to be able to have tor browser bundle in GuixSD.
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, (continued)
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Hartmut Goebel, 2018/05/06
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Pjotr Prins, 2018/05/06
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Katherine Cox-Buday, 2018/05/16
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Tonton, 2018/05/16
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Katherine Cox-Buday, 2018/05/16
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/05/17
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Nils Gillmann, 2018/05/17
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox,
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- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Nils Gillmann, 2018/05/17
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Christopher Lemmer Webber, 2018/05/17
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Pjotr Prins, 2018/05/18
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Pjotr Prins, 2018/05/21
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Mark H Weaver, 2018/05/21
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Pjotr Prins, 2018/05/22
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Mark H Weaver, 2018/05/22
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Mark H Weaver, 2018/05/21
- Re: Packaging a free Firefox, Alex Vong, 2018/05/21
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