Re: Packaging a free Firefox

2018-05-06 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 06.05.2018 um 03:24 schrieb Mike Gerwitz: > On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 19:06:27 -0300, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: >> I have noticed somepeople advocating for packaging Firefox in GNU Guix, >> and since FF still has freedom issues, I see it as a no-go. > A simple option for now is to package FF b

Re: Packaging a free Firefox

2018-05-06 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 11:48:28AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 06.05.2018 um 03:24 schrieb Mike Gerwitz: > > On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 19:06:27 -0300, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > >> I have noticed somepeople advocating for packaging Firefox in GNU Guix, > >> and since FF still has freedom i

Re: Packaging a free Firefox

2018-05-06 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 06:01:59 +, Nils Gillmann wrote: > Mike Gerwitz transcribed 2.2K bytes: >> On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 19:06:27 -0300, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: >> > I have noticed somepeople advocating for packaging Firefox in GNU Guix, >> > and since FF still has freedom issues, I see

Re: Packaging a free Firefox

2018-05-06 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 11:48:28 +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 06.05.2018 um 03:24 schrieb Mike Gerwitz: >> On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 19:06:27 -0300, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: >>> I have noticed somepeople advocating for packaging Firefox in GNU Guix, >>> and since FF still has freedom issues

Re: Packaging a free Firefox

2018-05-06 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 10:05:35AM -0400, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > Packaging Firefox as-is is not an option. In the case of their addon > system, they encourage installation of non-free addons, which is against > the Free Software Distribution Guidelines (FSDG), and is the same reason > that Debian i

Re: Packaging a free Firefox

2018-05-06 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 06.05.2018 um 16:05 schrieb Mike Gerwitz: > In the case of their addon > system, they encourage installation of non-free addons, which is against > the Free Software Distribution Guidelines (FSDG), and is the same reason > that Debian isn't a recommended free software distribution. > My aim is t

Re: Packaging a free Firefox

2018-05-06 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 06.05.2018 um 15:58 schrieb Mike Gerwitz: > I suspect that most Guix users are more technical than average users and > would be much less bothered by a kluge for the time being. I would be bothered by such a kludge, which IMHO is of no use. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel

Re: 29/88: gnu: Add emacs-let-alist.

2018-05-06 Thread Alex Kost
Oleg Pykhalov (2018-05-04 21:50 +0300) wrote: > In addion to my previous answer. > > Oleg Pykhalov writes: > > […] > >>> 'let-alist' is a part of Emacs (that's why it was removed by commit >>> 469c7ce0¹). Is there a reason to add it? > > […] > >> Elpa importer could probably exclude ‘let-alist’

Re: 29/88: gnu: Add emacs-let-alist.

2018-05-06 Thread Oleg Pykhalov
Alex Kost writes: […] > I don't understand what mechanism you mean. Why it cannot simply be > removed? ‘guix import elpa’ should remove ‘let-alist’ or ‘guix lint’ should notify ‘let-alist’ is already present in current Emacs. >> ‘let-alist’ >> shouln't clutter much if it stays in Guix package

Re: [PATCH] Create INDEX.LIST; Was: Fix references in jar manifests

2018-05-06 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Chris, On Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:12:42 +0200 Chris Marusich wrote: > Thank you for writing a patch! It looks good to me. We will need to > apply this to the core-updates branch, right? I think that changes to > the ant-build-system will cause all packages that use it to be rebuilt. I've push

Redefining the maximum path length [Fwd: Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp]

2018-05-06 Thread Nils Gillmann
Hi folks, we did some changes in GNUnet where my part of the job reminded me again of the path length Linux has as default. I know there's at least (only?) 1 file in the Linux kernel which defines the path length. Where else would we need to apply changes as a distro? I think if there are really

Re: Redefining the maximum path length [Fwd: Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp]

2018-05-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 06:59:23PM +, Nils Gillmann wrote: > we did some changes in GNUnet where my part of the job reminded me again > of the path length Linux has as default. > > I know there's at least (only?) 1 file in the Linux kernel which defines > the path length. Where else would we n

Re: Redefining the maximum path length [Fwd: Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp]

2018-05-06 Thread Nils Gillmann
Leo Famulari transcribed 2.5K bytes: > On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 06:59:23PM +, Nils Gillmann wrote: > > we did some changes in GNUnet where my part of the job reminded me again > > of the path length Linux has as default. > > > > I know there's at least (only?) 1 file in the Linux kernel which d

Re: Redefining the maximum path length [Fwd: Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp]

2018-05-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 07:27:46PM +, Nils Gillmann wrote: > I have inserted a build log of a failing test from > GNUnet commit f13af7e7281064380def70d0b4392b4351211655 [...] > TEST: Viewing all stats...FAIL: unexpected output: > osystem othe

Re: Redefining the maximum path length [Fwd: Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp]

2018-05-06 Thread Nils Gillmann
Leo Famulari transcribed 3.0K bytes: > On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 07:27:46PM +, Nils Gillmann wrote: > > I have inserted a build log of a failing test from > > GNUnet commit f13af7e7281064380def70d0b4392b4351211655 > > [...] > > > TEST: Viewing all stats...FAIL: unexpected output: > > osys

Re: Packaging a free Firefox

2018-05-06 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 18:33:56 +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 06.05.2018 um 16:05 schrieb Mike Gerwitz: >> In the case of their addon >> system, they encourage installation of non-free addons, which is against >> the Free Software Distribution Guidelines (FSDG), and is the same reason >> that

Re: Redefining the maximum path length [Fwd: Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp]

2018-05-06 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 08:17:20PM +, Nils Gillmann wrote: > > That path is only 98 characters long. What limit do you think it is > > exceeding? It may be a shell restriction rather than a kernel restriction. I run into the same thing with my binary path rewriting. My solution is to truncate