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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: patches question
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:09:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8ia7pq4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160623132347.GA9193@shadowwalker> (ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is's message of "Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:23:47 +0000")

Hello!

ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is> skribis:

> diff --git a/config/Makefile.in b/config/Makefile.in
> --- a/config/Makefile.in
> +++ b/config/Makefile.in

I view this patch as upstream work that Guix should not carry.  To put
it differently, it’s not Guix’s missing to maintain a fork of Firefox
(or any other package).

> (define-public firefox
>   (package
>     (name "firefox")
>     (version "45.2.0esr")

What is the goal here?

Guix proper can provide IceCat (which modifies Firefox to comply with
trademark rules, to comply with the GNU FSDG¹, and to enhance privacy),
maybe Tor Browser (assuming it complies with the FSDG as well), but not
stock Firefox (unless the trademark issue and FSDG violations are
resolved.)

Besides, I think it should be possible to (inherit icecat) rather than
duplicate all the recipe.

Hope this clarifies things!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

¹ https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-24 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-23 10:41 patches question ng0
2016-06-23 11:09 ` Andreas Enge
2016-06-23 11:30   ` ng0
2016-06-23 20:14     ` Andreas Enge
2016-06-23 22:18       ` ng0
2016-06-23 13:23 ` ng0
2016-06-23 20:27   ` Andreas Enge
2016-06-24 12:09   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-06-24 13:43     ` ng0
2016-06-24 15:48       ` Tor Browser Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-24 17:49         ` ng0
2016-06-26 10:05           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-29 12:48             ` ng0
2016-06-30 10:29               ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-30 16:09                 ` ng0
2016-06-30 18:00                 ` ng0
2016-08-05 13:35                 ` ng0
2016-08-06  4:05                   ` Alex Vong
2016-08-06 11:14                     ` ng0
2016-08-08  8:03                       ` Alex Vong
2016-08-10 20:01                         ` Mark H Weaver
2016-08-11  8:51                           ` ng0

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