yesterday we were talking in the irc channel about mozilla-searchplugins and if they should be different in [libre] and [nonprism].
since [nonprism] makes sure no program depends on proprietary services, icarious posed[0] that mozilla-searchplugins as it is should be moved to [nonprism], while [libre] should contain only default search engines, like any other browser in non-[nonprism] repos. i think this would be a regression, since duckduckgo[1] as default search engine and disabling google services (like "safe"browsing) was one of the first features we implemented back when parabola consisted of a blacklist and a repo with linux-libre and icecat. so to make things clear, i think a distinction should be made between recommending or depending on proprietary/anti-privacy services that run entirely as remote services, like google search as default search engine or google unsafebrowsing, which should be removed in non-[nonprism] repos, and proprietary services that are accessed using free software, like proprietary protocols included in pidgin, having icedove or mua's have shortcuts to configure gmail, etc., which should be implemented only in [nonprism]. of course this should be analyzed case per case (see the firefox hello issue on labs), but i think such distinction would prevent scalation a la "remove all contact with the unfree internet!", which could be a nice experiment, but not the scope of non-[nonprism], no? there's a fine line between freedom #0 and development decisions after all :) what do you think? [0]: if i misunderstood you, please tell me so [1]: i know ddg is yet another proprietary service... -- http://partidopirata.com.ar
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