conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

[白い熊]

Hi everyone:

I've long had conkeror installed, now after the latest Guix update it won't start, it's not installed anymore.

“guix package -i conkeror” tells me:
 guix package: package 'conkeror' has been superseded by 'icecat'

Why? These are two very different browsers.

I can still run conkeror manually from the store, using it's direct location — but once I delete generations it'll disappear.

How can I fix this — how to get conkeror installed properly again?

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白い熊

Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Conkeror development has been abandoned and won't receive updates
anymore.  This is a real concern security-wise which is why Guix dropped it.

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Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

[Alex Kost]

白い熊 (2019-06-02 12:19 +0200) wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
> I've long had conkeror installed, now after the latest Guix update it won't start, it's not installed anymore.
>
> “guix package -i conkeror” tells me:
>  guix package: package 'conkeror' has been superseded by 'icecat'
>
> Why? These are two very different browsers.

As Pierre wrote, Conkeror is abandoned, unfortunately.  It does not work
with the modern versions of icecat/firefox.  I.e., it is not possible to
start conkeror anymore (only conkeror on top of some old icecat/firefox
version could work), so it is (or will be) excluded from all GNU/Linux
distributions.

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Alex

Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Hi!

> I've long had conkeror installed, now after the latest Guix update it
> won't start, it's not installed anymore.

Me too.  I have long pinned an old conkerer and run in from the
store...but recently I have started running the next browser
(sbcl-next).

Other new emacsy-like browser efforts are underway, I don't know of
runnable code though.

> I can still run conkeror manually from the store, using it's direct
> location — but once I delete generations it'll disappear.

> How can I fix this — how to get conkeror installed properly again?

Right.  You can pin it by running something like

    ./pre-inst-env guix environment --root=~/.config/guix/conkeror --ad-hoc conkeror 

in a git checkout that still has conqueror.

Greetings,
janneke

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Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:

> Me too.  I have long pinned an old conkerer and run in from the
> store...but recently I have started running the next browser
> (sbcl-next).

Ha!  Happy to hear that! ;)

Coming months look very promising for Next browser development and
hopefully will be on par with Conkeror very soon!  Next goals include VI
bindings, a download manager and ad-blocking.

Cheers!

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Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi,

> “guix package -i conkeror” tells me:
>  guix package: package 'conkeror' has been superseded by 'icecat'
>
> Why? These are two very different browsers.

Conkeror is longer developed as its upstream has disappeared, and with a
heavy heart we decided to remove it from Guix.

You might be happier with the Next Browser as a replacement.

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Ricardo