Re: Packaging a free Firefox

[Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>]

Nils Gillmann writes:

> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes:
>> Hello Katherine,
>> 
>> Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com> skribis:
>> 
>> > E.g. I've seen several people in this thread mention they had already,
>> > or were trying to, package Firefox (myself included). Had there been an
>> > official non-libre channel, this work might not have been duplicated.
>> 
>> There will never be an “official” non-libre channel in that Guix as a
>> project will not provide such a channel.
>> 
>> Now, Firefox *is* free software, so there’s could be an official
>> “firefox” package, but in essence, it would have to incorporate pretty
>> much the same changes that IceCat provides.
>> 
>> I wonder why IceCat is based on an ESR, and what it would take to have
>> it follow Firefox releases more closely.
>
> I am not involved or speaking for Icecat, but ESR is moving slower than
> Firefox "master" channel. This alone is good enough to base on it for
> long-term support when you are a downstream vendor such as Torbrowser,
> Icecat, or a simple company running a site-specific Firefox.

It would be really nice to be able to have tor browser bundle in GuixSD.