From: Amin Bandali <amin@gnu.org>
To: "Ricardo Wurmus" <rekado@elephly.net>,
"Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:23:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878t4oylu6.fsf@aminb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pny09rgo.fsf@elephly.net>
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>> So the question is: can we push the Chromium package? I've read it's
>> almost ready[2].
>
> The TODO list for convenience:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> * There is still some data transmitted when starting the browser for the
> first time. It seems related to the "domain_reliability" component.
> * Remove remaining "Web Store" links. Currently I've only found it in
> settings, under "accessibility" and "fonts".
> * Opening settings transmits a bunch of data, the next version will
> include the 'disable-translation-lang-fetch' patch from Inox.
> * PDFium is built, but does not seem to work (the 'install' phase
> probably needs tweaking). Might just disable it instead.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> It would be *very* nice if the first and third items could be solved
> before merging, but I don’t consider them blockers. Would someone like
> to investigate one of these problems?
>
> As has been stated multiple times in the discussion of this evolving
> patch set, we cannot guarantee privacy, but we can make attempts to
> remove problems as they become known. This will remain an uphill battle
> and in future iterations of this package we should try to integrate more
> patches provided by other groups working on removing anti-features from
> Chromium.
I highly recommend looking into ungoogled-chromium [0], which
"modifies Google Chromium to remove Google integration and
enhance privacy, control, and transparency". It's not exactly a
fork, but rather a series of patches and modifications they apply
to each Chromium release.
In terms of documentation, they have a high-level description of
the various components and patches [1], and build instructions
for a few platforms and distros [2]. There was also an attempt
to make a nix package a while ago [3], which may be helpful to
look at.
[0]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
[1]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/design.md
[2]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/building.md
[3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/30916
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-30 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 9:03 Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Clément Lassieur
2018-08-29 15:24 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-08-29 16:14 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-08-29 18:16 ` Leo Famulari
2018-08-29 21:25 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-08-29 22:35 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-29 23:26 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-08-30 7:43 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 1:12 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 5:14 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 9:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 10:04 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 11:01 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 12:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 13:30 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 11:00 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 16:35 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 9:07 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 9:20 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 16:38 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 8:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30 8:54 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 12:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30 14:23 ` Amin Bandali [this message]
2018-09-01 14:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-01 17:31 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-01 20:28 ` Amin Bandali
2018-09-02 13:54 ` Marius Bakke
2018-09-02 16:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-01 17:53 ` Joshua Branson
2018-09-01 23:18 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-03 20:57 ` Joshua Branson
2018-09-04 8:13 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-02 5:33 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 6:35 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 8:13 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 10:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-02 13:29 ` Marius Bakke
2018-09-02 16:48 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-04 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-02 6:52 ` Leo Famulari
2018-08-30 9:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-07 9:29 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-15 10:36 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-17 13:28 ` Chromium channel Marius Bakke
2018-09-17 14:16 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-17 18:08 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-17 17:57 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-22 12:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
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2018-08-30 23:38 ` Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Benjamin Slade
2018-08-31 16:57 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-09-01 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-01 18:44 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-02 4:57 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-09-05 20:57 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
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