Nils Gillmann writes: > Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes: >> Hello Katherine, >> >> Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherin...@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.
