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ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> skribis:

> NixOS in Nixpkgs[2] makes use of patchelf to just fix up the prebuild
> variant found on dist.torproject.org.
>
>
> I suspect that the way Nix 'fixes' this is a no-go for us.

Indeed.  :-)

> My idea is now to just reconstruct what torproject does, from the git
> checkout of torbrowser[3] and eventually later fix Guix specific issues
> and fine tuning (freedom issues etc etc).=20

Sounds like a plan.

> Cloning takes a rather long time, this is where Andy's shallow-clone
> would be useful, which is where I ran into issue and delayed re-working
> this for now. If someone is interested I can post the patch which
> applied on master recently.

If you=E2=80=99ve made changes to what Andy posted back then, or if it does=
n=E2=80=99t
work as you want, please post and make it clear what=E2=80=99s left to addr=
ess.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.