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biergaizi
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 Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 2:48 am Post subject: [solved] Question about GNU/IceCat for Gentoo |
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There was a www-client/icecat package in Portage's tree. But it has been removed since version 10 because of Gentoo Team dropped the supporting of it. Why?
Now we have GNU/IceCat 24, and I really want to install it. It is possiable to readd it to the tree?
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Chiitoo
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| Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Teegrins, biergaizi!
If you haven't yet, I believe you can find out the reasoning, as well as the conditions for its return, via bug:
In short, as I see it, lack of upstream releases (in particular to fix security issues) makes the package unfavourable.
I hope this helps!
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anyNiXwilldo
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Look for Iceweasel-libre as a replacement for GNU Icecat. I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that Icewseasel-libre was due to replace GNU Icecat in the 100% free distributions. Check the Parabola GNU/Linux-libre website for info on Iceweasel-libre. Presently, on Parabola, GNU Icecat is at v24, while Iceweasel-libre is at v26. It mostly an issue of man-power (or the lack thereof for Icecat), or at least, that's what I understood.
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biergaizi
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| Chiitoo wrote: | Teegrins, biergaizi!
If you haven't yet, I believe you can find out the reasoning, as well as the conditions for its return, via bug:
In short, as I see it, lack of upstream releases (in particular to fix security issues) makes the package unfavourable.
I hope this helps! |
Oops, I just forgot the thread... Thanks!
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