On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 18:28 -0400, Matthew Finkel wrote: > After thinking about this for a little bit, here's my 2 cents. =) > > 1) The ebuild is specifically for building the Tor browser, not the > bundle. The package name of the ebuild states this but the email > mentions the bundle.
You're right, we want to build the Tor browser, not the TBB. > 2) One of the best reasons for using the bundle is that it is > self-contained. If you want to use the bundle for anonymity you can > easily do this and then discard it will little trace. This becomes > much more difficult with a system-level install. This is true, but in some scenarios (e.g. full disk encryption) having a system Tor Browser, could allow to have more easily sophisticated configurations. Using Tor Browser could even be a company policy in certain cases. Having a system Tor Browser would offer some advantages. > 3) On the other hand, I see no reason to restrict a security-conscious > user from using a more secure browser, as long as they understand the > trade-offs. However, torprofile should not be an optional USE flag. > Only adding some patches from upstream does not make it the > Torbrowser. Right, what we're willing to offer to the user is a web client which looks exactly the same as the Tor Browser to the web server he's connecting to, but leave all the rest easily configurable. Gentoo philosophy focuses a lot on the freedom of choice. The point now is be sure that our Tor Browser looks exactly like the official one, therefore all my questions. > 4) Given 3), is there a reason Tor is not at least an optional RDEPEND > for torbrowser via a USE flag (or another way)? 5) If you did/do > intend to create an ebuild for the TBB and not just the browser, it > should provide the exact same experience as if the user downloaded it > from torproject.org. I think this should include Vidalia launching > Torbrowser once the network is configured. 6) Make sure the ebuild > references Tor and not TOR I think we'll require Tor and integrate the Tor Browser profile. Thanks for your answer, Ale _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
