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[bug#42380] Wow!
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#42380] Wow! |
Date: |
Tue, 25 May 2021 23:24:01 +0200 |
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Hi,
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 05:05:47PM +0200, Xinglu Chen wrote:
>> What’s the status of these patches? I would love to see Tor Browser in
>> Guix!
>
> Does this package build the Tor browser from source? Or is it just a
> launcher, like the Debian package?
It builds from source.
And sorry for dropping the ball, André! If anyone’s willing to give it
a try and report back, or to comment on the patch, that’d be great.
> My understanding is that the Tor people discourage anyone else from
> distributing builds of the Tor browser.
>
> If it builds from source, we should probably call it something besides
> "Tor browser", since it will be different from the official Tor browser
> due to the unbundling and other changes.
>
> Also, if it builds from source, it will be easy to identify users of
> this package as being Guix users and since the Guix userbase is
> relatively small, it will be much easier than usual to positively
> identify the person using the package.
Good points. I think we could ask the Tor Browser folks (we met with a
couple of them at Reproducible Builds Summits in the past and I’m
confident we’d understand each other :-)).
Thanks,
Ludo’.