On 02/07/2019 06:52 PM, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hi bill-auger, >> >> bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> skribis: >> >>> re: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg00009.html >>> >>> i would like to remind readers of the guix-devel list that it was >>> discussed some months ago, why no FSDG distros currently distribute >>> chromium[1] - it appeared at that time, that most people in that >>> discussion were in agreement that chromium should not be included in >>> guix; and marius was instead hosting it in a private repo, as not to >>> taint the main guix repos with dubious software - has there been a >>> notable break-through since then? >> >> It’s not entirely clear to me what the problems are, to be honest. >> Marius listed specific issues that were addressed by the patches; others >> then pointed out at additional issues that ungoogled-chromium fixes, >> which Marius took into account; what’s left now? >> >> I understand you’re skeptical about Chromium, but we cannot base >> decisions based on vague skepticism. If you know of issues that are >> still unaddressed, please do list them. >> >> I’d also like to stress that, if Chromium is eventually included in >> Guix, we are committed to fixing it or removing it should someone later >> discover that it does not comply with the FSDG (that’s the “Commitment >> to Correct Mistakes” section of FSDG.) > > +1 ... If concrete problems are found, by all means those should be > raised and addressed. Otherwise I really think we ought to merge this > work.
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