Re: [gNewSense-users] firefox in search of a solution revisited [long mail]

[Palle Raabjerg]

Sorry. I may not have been too attentive. And am inexperienced in 
package management. Maintaining such a package may indeed be more work 
than I imagined.
There needs to be security updates, support, etc.

But I'd still suggest we use either the Debian, or the GNU IceWeasel 
option. We could just purge Firefox from the system, and let it be at 
that, but most people expect Firefox, or something Firefox-ish to be on 
the system.
I'll be thinking about figuring out other, easier solutions. But I have 
doubts that they can be found.

I may still consider joining a team, if it gets to maintaining our own 
package. But I'm just not sure if I have the time, or an appropriate 
amount experience for it.

- Palle

Palle Raabjerg wrote:
> Obviously, since this is no big distro (yet!), the number of packages 
> that needs to be maintained by gNewSense should be kept at a minimum. 
> I am also for adding IceWeasel, and perhaps gnash, and taking out 
> Firefox. Ubuntu carries no IceWeasel debs. Does Debian maintain a Free 
> IceWeasel package? If so, is this something we could copy/steal/hog in 
> some way? ;)
> Otherwise, I find the most obvious solution would be to find someone 
> who is willing to compile, package and maintain a package of the GNU 
> IceWeasel.
> It doesn't sound to me like more than a one-man job, unless we need to 
> do lots of integration, apart from just maintaining it.
> (On that note, would a "hack", like adding firefox-bin symlinks 
> pointing to the iceweasel binary to the package be acceptable? Any 
> other program which then wants firefox specifically, gets IceWeasel 
> instead. It's not extremely "nice", but it would probably work well 
> enough).
>
> If it's not a lot of work, I might volunteer to maintain it. But I'll 
> need to learn a thing or two about creating deb packages, then. 
> Amazingly, in all the time I've used Debian, I never got around to 
> doing that. :)
>
> - Palle
>
> Paul O'Malley wrote:
> > rek2GNU/Linux wrote:
> >  
> > > Hi Paul, I will say let's go with  iceweasel, add gnash flash plug 
> > > in and other free software add ons.
> > > why reinvent the wheel? but that just me.
> > >
> > > Chris F.
> > >
> > >
> > >     
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > It seems that I was not obvious enough ;-)
> >
> > how?
> >
> > (that was the whole point of my mail)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
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