I’m on the same page. Hardly use chromium, and when I do I most definitely don’t use sync. On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 19:28 Javier via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1/19/21 6:22 PM, u34--- via arch-general wrote: > > There is a heads-up discussion at > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2021-January/030260.html > . > > > > 1. Is it worth asking help from some free software org, since the problem > > is shared by other distributions? Perhaps google will agree to work > > with that org, as a representative of the distributions. Or,that a > single > > distribtion will represent the other? > > 2. I hardly use chromium. Yet, few gov sites here mandate using it. At > > rare circumstancess, I have to deal with these gov sites. In short, I > > hardly knows, and don't care, about its Sync feature. > > 2.1 Can the package built, and run, without whatever is required for > > the Sync feature? > > 2.2 In case you will stop maintaining it and no one adopts it, can > you > > upload it to the AUR, and disown it? > > > > -- > > u34 > > > > Actually, why not keeping it maintained without the "Sync Feature"? Is it > something most users make use of? I use pretty much Firefox for > everything, but I need to keep Chromium given some corporate web pages that > only work on Chrome/Chromium. So I believe it's good for Arch to keep > Chromium, and not sure about the rationale on no supporting Chromium > without Sync. I bet it's pretty useful without it. I've been keeping an > eye on that thread, but in the end devs are the ones deciding. > > Greetings ! > > -- > Javier > >
