Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

[Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>]

Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is> writes:

> Joshua Branson transcribed 2.3K bytes:
>> Amin Bandali <amin@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>> >
>> 
>> There is also the Brave browser
>> 
>> https://brave.com/
>
> It would very likely not be accepted in Guix. At least by my
> interpretation of what we have included and cared for so far. Brave is
> basically replacing Ads with other Ads and all the requests you make
> in the browser are send through their proprietary servers.
> Could be that we already discussed Brave a while back on irc or on
> this list. Even when rejected, no onw forbids anyone to provide it
> outside of core.

Oh really?  I had no idea that they send stuff through their proprietary
servers.  That doesn't really make it free software.  :(  Bummer.

>
>> >
>> > In terms of documentation, they have a high-level description of
>> > the various components and patches [1], and build instructions
>> > for a few platforms and distros [2].  There was also an attempt
>> > to make a nix package a while ago [3], which may be helpful to
>> > look at.
>> >
>> > [0]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
>> > [1]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/design.md
>> > [2]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/building.md
>> > [3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/30916
>>