[artix-general] [universe] about newer librewolf option

[artist]

Hi,
librewolf-88.0.1-2 is now in the Universe repo, including the suggested 
'backup=' clause in the build.
Regards,
artist

On 5/14/21 9:26 AM, Javier wrote:
> Hi !
>
> The latest librewolf (available on AUR) which is one minor version 
> ahead of the *universe* one, introduces the ability to override custom 
> values on top of the ones selected by the librewolf devs on:
>
> ~/.librewolf/librewolf.overrides.cfg
>
> That would be useful to some.  However it's not enough if the user 
> modified:
>
> /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf.cfg
>
> To use the firefox default values instead of the librewolf ones, by 
> commenting out or removing the librewolf configurations.  As an 
> example, it is safer and way simpler to just remove the configurations 
> in librewolf.cfg to get "safe browsing" working, than writing the URLs 
> and strings by hand (which can get wrong or out of date), trying to 
> overwrite them in the librewolf.overrides.cfg.
>
> That said, I hope the mechanism to backup, and not totally overwrite 
> on upgrades:
>
> /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf.cfg
> /usr/lib/librewolf/distribution/policies.json
>
> still remains, even when that HOME overrides become available, which 
> will happen once moving librewolf to 88.0.1, given current universe 
> librewolf is still 88.0.
>
> I guess, as on the AUR package, that is achieved through:
>
> backup=('usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf.cfg'
>         'usr/lib/librewolf/distribution/policies.json')
>
> Again, please don't get rid of that, just because of the new 
> librewolf.overrides.cfg, given that doesn't cover all user cases...
>
> Thanks a lot !
>
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