On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 18:06 +0200, Andreas Radke via arch-dev-public wrote: > Am Sat, 01 Jun 2019 17:53:58 +0200 > schrieb Ike Devolder via arch-dev-public > <[email protected]>: > > > On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 21:30 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > You don't seem to > > > explain why you need to ask in your email. > > > > Because it is proprietary and I explain that now there is a valid > > reason compared to 3 years ago where there was practically no > > difference between vivaldi, chromium and opera. > > Crap. There's no reason to support any closed browser at all. We are > still an Open Source Linux distribution. Sure we have a relaxed > policy > adding closed source packages and blobs wherever needed to support > hardware. > > But there's no reason to support spying tools like closed source > browsers! > > -Andy
I understand your sentiment, but just being harsh does not contribute to a solution. To be honest, our beloved "open source" browsers are far from holy in terms of data collection. I don't think we should try to be holier than the pope here. And also note there is genuine requests from users to add it to the official repos. Also, I'm just trying to be nice here about adding something proprietary. Instead of just dropping it in the repo's an be done with it. And I'm still convinced that Vivaldi offers more unique features that are very usefull compared to what we ship now in terms of web browsers. But if most of the Arch Linux group is against adding it, I will honor that.
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