On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:42:19AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:40:45AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Jun 09, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > > > > > open question: is there a perceived need to dig into the source code > > > of firefox and, just as was done with google-chrome to create > > > chromium-browser, permanently patch out certain "features"? > > No: I am a grown up and I can choose by myself which features of > > a software I want to use. No nanny maintainers, please. > > This question is not about features, but about the fact that this > effectively incorporates something as default which would otherwise be > frowned upon for something in Debian's "main" repository. "Pocket" is a > non-free service. > > Having said that, we do have other packages in main which talk to a > non-free service; e.g., there's some facebookchat plugin for some chat > programs (I forgot which). This is no different. > > So while I understand Luke's concern, given Debian's current practices > there is no reason to reject this functionality.
And even without looking at other packages, iceweasel has had a search box for years, which defaults to using Google, which is a non-free service as well, and so are the alternatives that are provided, including Yahoo, Bing, Amazon and even DDG that many free-software supporters like to pride themselves of using (although a few parts of DDG are open-source-y now). Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150610095635.ga29...@glandium.org
