* conkeror superseded by icecat, why?
@ 2019-06-02 10:19 白い熊
2019-06-02 11:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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From: 白い熊 @ 2019-06-02 10:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-guix
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guix package: package 'conkeror' has been superseded by 'icecat'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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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
白い熊
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2019-06-02 10:19 conkeror superseded by icecat, why? 白い熊
@ 2019-06-02 11:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-03 14:49 ` Alex Kost
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From: Pierre Neidhardt @ 2019-06-02 11:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 白い熊, help-guix
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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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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/
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2019-06-02 10:19 conkeror superseded by icecat, why? 白い熊
2019-06-02 11:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
@ 2019-06-03 14:49 ` Alex Kost
2019-06-03 16:49 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2019-06-05 9:57 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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From: Alex Kost @ 2019-06-03 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 白い熊; +Cc: help-guix
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 guix package: package 'conkeror' has been superseded by 'icecat'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
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* Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?
2019-06-02 10:19 conkeror superseded by icecat, why? 白い熊
2019-06-02 11:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-03 14:49 ` Alex Kost
@ 2019-06-03 16:49 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2019-06-03 17:10 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-06-05 9:57 ` Ricardo Wurmus
3 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen @ 2019-06-03 16:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 白い熊; +Cc: help-guix
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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2019-06-02 10:19 conkeror superseded by icecat, why? 白い熊
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2019-06-03 16:49 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
@ 2019-06-05 9:57 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2019-06-05 9:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 白い熊; +Cc: help-guix
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
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