Re: [voidlinux/void-packages] Package request: palemoon (#2387)

crocket at Sat, 10 Feb 2018 00:17:33 +0000 (UTC)

one browser? Do you mean palemoon and basilisk?

Enno Boland at Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:04:00 -0700

Nope, not in the mood to get threats..

Enno Boland at Tue, 24 Apr 2018 06:04:01 +0000 (UTC)

Closed #2387.

Jakub Skrzypnik at Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:25:04 -0700

Just for reference, can I get a backstory about that? :)

crocket at Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:26:48 -0700

palemoon developers refused to support musl, so void-packages maintainers refused to include palemoon, too.

Helmut Pozimski at Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:42:43 -0700

They also refuse to support current gcc versions which makes it unfit to be included in a rolling release distribution.

Enno Boland at Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:55:08 -0700

For reference: https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86

Enno Boland at Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:06:36 -0700

Void packages lots of stuff that refuses to support musl ( == proper standards). In contrast to openbsd-wip, which only distributes build instructions, (this is why the linked issue isn't reasonable) we ship binaries. That means the threats that were done to the linked repository actually apply to Void if we would add palemoon with system libraries.