Re: Packaging a free Firefox

[Tonton]

I guess channels already sort of exist. have a git repo or similar with
whatever guix packages in it and point $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH at it. Then all
packages defined in your git repo are suddenly part of your available guix
packages.

On Wed, 16 May 2018 10:44:20 -0500
Katherine Cox-Buday <address@hidden> wrote:

> Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> Not packaging FF or crippling FF is a no-go! Doing so will discourage
> >> users from using GuixSD and Free Software.  
> 
> As an anecdote with a data-point of one, I uninstalled GuixSD because I
> suddenly needed the machine I was running it on to be my daily driver. I
> had been attempting to package Firefox whenever I had a spare moment,
> but I ran out of time and needed it to work as I didn't have time to
> migrate all the machines I use to a libre-friendly browser (nor am I
> sure I want to).
> 
> > That is an interesting one. GNU Guix, by virtue of it being a GNU
> > project needs to abide by GNU free software terms. But even among core
> > project members there are variations in thought in how to compromise
> > with user requirements. A package manager that does not target user
> > needs is a shitty package manager. This is one reason I champion the
> > concept of channels:
> >
> > guix channel firefox http://some-origin/guix-channels/firefox
> > guix package -i firefox
> >
> > so we can make GNU Guix as pure as possible and leverage less pure
> > concepts (such as Firefox and Conda) into something that is not
> > considered part of the core project. I think it would also render
> > other maintenance benefits, for example versioning of old software
> > would become much easier.
> >
> > guix channel ruby-1.8 http://some-origin/guix-channels/ruby-1.8
> > guix package -i ruby
> >
> > I hope we get something like this at some point.  
> 
> So do I. I completely agree with the points made elsewhere in this
> thread about joining idealism with pragmatism, and I think channels are
> a good way to allow people who want/need to run less-than-libre software
> to remain with and support Guix, without forcing the project to adopt
> software contrary to its goals.
> 



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