Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi bill-auger, > > bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> skribis: > >> re: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg00009.html >> >> i would like to remind readers of the guix-devel list that it was >> discussed some months ago, why no FSDG distros currently distribute >> chromium[1] - it appeared at that time, that most people in that >> discussion were in agreement that chromium should not be included in >> guix; and marius was instead hosting it in a private repo, as not to >> taint the main guix repos with dubious software - has there been a >> notable break-through since then? > > It’s not entirely clear to me what the problems are, to be honest. > Marius listed specific issues that were addressed by the patches; others > then pointed out at additional issues that ungoogled-chromium fixes, > which Marius took into account; what’s left now? > > I understand you’re skeptical about Chromium, but we cannot base > decisions based on vague skepticism. If you know of issues that are > still unaddressed, please do list them. > > I’d also like to stress that, if Chromium is eventually included in > Guix, we are committed to fixing it or removing it should someone later > discover that it does not comply with the FSDG (that’s the “Commitment > to Correct Mistakes” section of FSDG.)
+1 ... If concrete problems are found, by all means those should be raised and addressed. Otherwise I really think we ought to merge this work.