[arch-general] On arch-dev-public: Chromium losing Sync support on March 15

[Matt Compton]

I’m on the same page. Hardly use chromium, and when I do I most definitely
don’t use sync.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 19:28 Javier via arch-general <
arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 1/19/21 6:22 PM, u34--- via arch-general wrote:
> > There is a heads-up discussion at
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2021-January/030260.html
> .
> >
> > 1. Is it worth asking help from some free software org, since the problem
> >     is shared by other distributions? Perhaps google will agree to work
> >     with that org, as a representative of the distributions. Or,that a
> single
> >     distribtion will represent the other?
> > 2. I hardly use chromium. Yet, few gov sites here mandate using it. At
> >     rare circumstancess, I have to deal with these gov sites. In short, I
> >     hardly knows, and don't care, about its Sync feature.
> >     2.1 Can the package built, and run, without whatever is required for
> >         the Sync feature?
> >     2.2 In case you will stop maintaining it and no one adopts it, can
> you
> >         upload it to the AUR, and disown it?
> >
> > --
> > u34
> >
>
> Actually, why not keeping it maintained without the "Sync Feature"?  Is it
> something most users make use of?  I use pretty much Firefox for
> everything, but I need to keep Chromium given some corporate web pages that
> only work on Chrome/Chromium.  So I believe it's good for Arch to keep
> Chromium, and not sure about the rationale on no supporting Chromium
> without Sync.  I bet it's pretty useful without it.  I've been keeping an
> eye on that thread, but in the end devs are the ones deciding.
>
> Greetings !
>
> --
> Javier
>
>