On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:32:40AM +0200, artist wrote:
> 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.
Sounds like a winner. Where is it?
>
> 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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