Re: Chromium channel

[Nils Gillmann]

Clément Lassieur transcribed 1.4K bytes:
> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hello :-)
> >>>
> >>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> skribis:
> >>>>
> >>>>> So the question is: can we push the Chromium package?  I've read it's
> >>>>> almost ready[2].  It's probably far better than everything we have,
> >>>>> despite not being totally 'finished'.  Maybe we can add what's left to
> >>>>> do as a TODO and fix the package later?
> >>>>
> >>>> As long as the freedom issues and phone-home issues are addressed, which
> >>>> appears to be the case, I’m all for it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Marius?
> >>>
> >>> Marius, what is the status, can we merge it?
> >>
> >> Ping
> >
> > Hello, sorry for the delay.
> >
> > I've set up a channel for Chromium here:
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/mbakke/guix-chromium
> >
> > Chromium has been updated for version 69 as well.

Huh! Did the requirement for building go up by 100% with version 69?

I will test if my 8GB RAM buildmachine can still build it like it
used to up to version 68.x.

> > I don't think we can merge as-is due to the tight Web Store integration
> > (even if it's disabled), but I will start work on packaging the full
> > "Ungoogled-Chromium" next:
> >
> > https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
> >
> > I'll bump this thread once it is ready for testing.  Developments will
> > happen in the Gitlab repository.  Pull requests welcome!  :-)
> 
> Great!
> 
> Thank you very much Marius, and sorry for insisting.  The 'channels'
> solution seems to fit very well!
> 
> Clément
>