From: Benjamin Slade <beoram@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:38:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1o777cy.fsf@jnanam.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.598.1535619290.1280.guix-devel@gnu.org>
Speaking from a user-perspective, I would be very much in favour of
having modern Firefox and Chromium (appropriately de-Googled as much as
possible, of course) as actual Guix offerings.
And while there are lots of objectionable things about the www in 2018,
I don't think being a GNU follower is likely to strongly correlate with
being anti-web (I suspect the opposite, if anything).
On most of my machines I find what I really need are Emacs, LaTeX, a
terminal, and the latest versions of Firefox and Chromium, as there are
things which simply don't work otherwise (and having used IceCat 52 for
a few weeks now on Guix, I'm also reminded of how horribly slow Firefox
used to be).
I've managed to jury-rig a mostly-working actual Firefox on my GuixSD
machine, but only by installing Docker via Nix and figuring out how to
build and run Firefox in a Docker container (non-trivial task, having
never touched Docker before, and one that still doesn't work
100%). While this has been somewhat educational, I'd have rather spent
the time further exploring Guix (trying to build new Guix packages &c.).
Just my two bits as a user,
—Ben
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( https://slade.jnanam.net . https://babbagefiles.xyz )
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2018-08-30 23:38 ` Benjamin Slade [this message]
2018-08-31 16:57 ` Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium Hartmut Goebel
2018-09-01 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-01 18:44 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-09-02 4:57 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-09-05 20:57 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-08-29 9:03 Clément Lassieur
2018-08-29 15:24 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-08-29 16:14 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-08-29 18:16 ` Leo Famulari
2018-08-29 21:25 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-08-29 22:35 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-29 23:26 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2018-08-30 7:43 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 1:12 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 5:14 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 9:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 10:04 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 11:01 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 12:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 13:30 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 11:00 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 16:35 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 9:07 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 9:20 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-08-30 16:38 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-08-30 8:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30 8:54 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 12:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30 14:23 ` Amin Bandali
2018-09-01 14:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-01 17:31 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-01 20:28 ` Amin Bandali
2018-09-02 13:54 ` Marius Bakke
2018-09-02 16:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-01 17:53 ` Joshua Branson
2018-09-01 23:18 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-03 20:57 ` Joshua Branson
2018-09-04 8:13 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-09-02 5:33 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 6:35 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 8:13 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-09-02 10:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-02 13:29 ` Marius Bakke
2018-09-02 16:48 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-04 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-02 6:52 ` Leo Famulari
2018-08-30 9:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-07 9:29 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-09-15 10:36 ` Clément Lassieur
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