From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: texmaker, Qt and Chromium Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2016 23:00:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87wphitv2q.fsf@elephly.net> References: <877f9kufxx.fsf@elephly.net> <20161008201805.GA18485@macbook42.flashner.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57968) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsyji-0003pt-8H for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 17:00:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsyjd-0001Kw-C5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 17:00:50 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:21333) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bsyjd-0001K9-3N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2016 17:00:45 -0400 In-reply-to: <20161008201805.GA18485@macbook42.flashner.co.il> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel Efraim Flashner writes: > AFAIK Chromium doesn't modify any of its bundled software. Would it make > sense to create a chromium-source package that replaces the bundled > sources with our sources, allowing us to keep the chromium source and > the bundled source up-to-date. Then we could use this new > 'chromium-source' package as a replacement source for > chromium/inox/qtwebengine? Are you certain they don’t modify their bundle? I thought that was the whole point for them to bundle things in the first place: to be able to modify things without having to coordinate with the various upstreams. ~~ Ricardo