From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Branson Subject: Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:57:56 -0400 Message-ID: <87h8j69u3v.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <87ftyx35pw.fsf@lassieur.org> <87pny09rgo.fsf@elephly.net> <878t4oylu6.fsf@aminb.org> <877ek53y0x.fsf@fastmail.com> <20180901231840.povlhrq57iv2a25x@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41327) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fwvnn-0002z3-O8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:50:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fwvjT-00028I-DP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:46:03 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:56445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fwvjT-000287-8t for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:45:59 -0400 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1BC21D23 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2018 16:45:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dobby (unknown [72.12.220.132]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 15A39E44F1 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2018 16:45:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20180901231840.povlhrq57iv2a25x@abyayala> (Nils Gillmann's message of "Sat, 1 Sep 2018 23:18:40 +0000") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Nils Gillmann writes: > Joshua Branson transcribed 2.3K bytes: >> Amin Bandali writes: >> >> > Ricardo Wurmus 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 >>