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From: ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: General Question: Execution of binaries not built for GuixSD
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:06:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160622140636.GA21461@shadowwalker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfZSz3GOC9zbp+dVawFm1AgV=r2Wg+w6ersiqauXpsmxwQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2016-06-22(09:53:34AM-0400), Thompson, David wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Florian Paul Schmidt
> <mista.tapas@gmx.net> wrote:
> > See the attached file for reference. Put it into a guix checkout under
> >
> > nonfree/packages/
> >
> > Does that help as a starting point?
>
> Do the upstream Firefox and/or Thunderbird contain nonfree components?
>  If so, please do not promote such software on this list.
>
> I really really really cannot recommend this approach to packaging,
> because it goes against one of the core properties of Guix:
> reproducibility.  Taking someone else's binary and hacking it until it
> works isn't a real solution.  The proper way to do this is to build
> binaries from source that are compatible with Guix.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Dave

Regarding thunderbird, I would compare to what parabola does
with icedove.

I would say that it might take more time, but it's more benificial
for Guix if for example a slightly modified version of firefox lts (45.1.x)
could be packaged. This way torbrowser is just an inherit away.

https://projects.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/tree/libre/icedove
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-22 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-21 23:21 General Question: Execution of binaries not built for GuixSD christoph vogelsberg
2016-06-22 10:50 ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2016-06-22 13:27   ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2016-06-22 13:53     ` Thompson, David
2016-06-22 14:06       ` ng0 [this message]
2016-06-22 14:12       ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2016-06-22 12:44 ` Thompson, David
2016-06-24 18:19   ` General Question: What if Binary Building breaks? christoph vogelsberg
2016-06-24 18:55     ` ng0
2016-06-25 17:36     ` Leo Famulari

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