From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Packaging a free Firefox Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 13:34:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87vabm1po2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y3h1g42q.fsf@lassieur.org> <87tvrlhi58.fsf@hyperbola.info> <878t8xo9t9.fsf@gnu.org> <20180506125312.aadd4fixeungiwv6@thebird.nl> <87fu2rip0r.fsf@gmail.com> <20180516181028.1a9cd04b@merlin.browniehive.net> <878t8jiiwx.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJHBD-0005bL-1G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 07:34:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fJHB9-0005mi-RA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 May 2018 07:34:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878t8jiiwx.fsf@gmail.com> (Katherine Cox-Buday's message of "Wed, 16 May 2018 12:56:14 -0500") 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: Katherine Cox-Buday Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello Katherine, Katherine Cox-Buday 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 =E2=80=9Cofficial=E2=80=9D non-libre channel in that= Guix as a project will not provide such a channel. Now, Firefox *is* free software, so there=E2=80=99s could be an official =E2=80=9Cfirefox=E2=80=9D package, but in essence, it would have to incorpo= rate 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. IWBN if IceCat could be pretty much like Linux-libre, i.e., a set of scripts that semi-automatically adjusts the Firefox source (I=E2=80=99m not sure if that is the case curren= tly.) At any rate, people interested in this should probably team up with the IceCat people (person?) to see how we can together move in the right direction. Ludo=E2=80=99.