Re: Icecat Was: general policies

[bill-auger]

On Sat, 23 Sep 2023 04:25:06 +0200 Denis wrote:
> Can we get that fixed instead? A very simple fix would be to redirect
> the people to use Guix

if it were that simple, i would have accomplished it years ago - i would not
sincerely recommend guix to anyone though; simply because it is a TPPM - that
is a very marrow-minded solution - there are packages in the repos of guix,
parabola, and fedora - there is also a repo on the OBS with .deb packages - for
other distros i would recommend "if your distro is not listed here, ask your
distro to package icecat or compile it yourself from source" - if people use
guix instead, it reduces the chance that icecat will be packaged for any other
distros - and at this point, i do not care any more - i may even stop packaging
icecat for parabola and create an 'iceweasel-esr' to replace it

"we" can not get that fixed - ive raised this issue with RMS and the GNU
webmasters - myself and others have raised the issue with gnuzilla many times
over the years - no one who can do it, wants it to be done - as a webmaster, i
could have done it without permission; but that would have been an imposition -
the webmasters generally do not impose anything on projects without their
consent; and i could not get any consensus among them to impose the change
without their consent - even RMS is apparently content to let it stand, even
with the FSD warning people not to use it

go ahead an write to gnuzila-dev to suggest it if you like; but it is a waste of
time - i am done trying - the issue was raised again only last month - no one
from the gnuzilla team even replied

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