On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 02:06:05PM -0800, Kyle Terrien wrote:
Thank you! I was tempted to reopen it, but it looks like the general consensus is that an AUR package will be submitted.
You can only request to reopen...
It looks like sticking to upstream trumps user-centric in this case. (Although I guess building from AUR is a fair substitute for user-centric.)
Yes, that's what the SVN repo is for: if you don't like the official release (= the one in binary repos), just clone && rebuild the thing yourself. As a bonus, you can get rid of unnecessary deps.
It's a real bummer that a bunch of users (myself included) will be forced to compile Firefox on each release. I really hope we can eventually get an abrowser or firefox-nobranding (or maybe even palemoon) into the repos.
Compiling FF doesn't take long if you disable PGO in PKGBUILD.
How can we nominate a package into community or extra?
The package will have to get enough votes in the AUR and someone should want to maintain it in the repo.
(And if you are fed-up with Mozilla's walled-garden policy like I am, I suggest trying out Pale Moon [0].)
... which you need to build yourself anyway. Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D