Hi Javier,
It's named thunderbird-artix as indeed when named thunderbird the order
of included repo's in pacman.conf would determine which one would be
installed, which might lead to confusion and issues.
One of the reasons to provide thunderbird-artix is that it's critical
that any security issues in an email client are fixed asap, but Arch's
updates of Thunderbird are almost always weeks behind. Thunderbird-artix
is available within a day of a new Thunderbird release. Also, the api
integrations for ie. location services for Google and Mozilla have been
disabled, as well as crashreporter and updater, and jack audio is enabled.
Thx for the hint about octopus, which seems interesting.
Regards,
artist
On 4/17/21 11:50 PM, Javier wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I noticed universe has a "thunderbird-artix", and I'm wondering why
> named "-artix" instead of plain "thunderbird", in which case if
> "universe" is included in pacman.conf before arch repos, then the
> universe thunderbird package would be installed, rather than the arch
> one...
>
> Something else I'm wondering is what are the main differences. By
> looking at [1] vs [2], I can't notice much difference, except by some
> dependencies... Unfortunately, on [3] (the thunderbird-artix gitea),
> I only see the PKGBUILD available as to asses differences on the
> mozconfig.cfg build options... Perhaps someone can tell. Conveniently
> enough arch offers language packages for TB, but TB can manage
> installing them any ways, so not a must...
>
> BTW, It would be nice if artix version integrated octupus [4] on its
> build, but looking at the PKGBUILD only, it doesn't seem it does.
I
> 1st heard about it from arch-general mailing list [5][6]. That would
> add great value I believe.
>
> Thanks !
>
>
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