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provide Mozilla Thunderbird for Artixlinux
On 4/18/21 9:24 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> 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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