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Why LibreWolf isn't in the official Arch repositories? (lemm.ee)
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From Wiki:

When PKGBUILDs receive enough community interest and the support of a Package Maintainer, they are moved into the extra repository (maintained by the Package Maintainers) <...>

So, librewolf package has 150 votes and librewolf-bin has 429 votes. And it's 6th most popular package in AUR (by "Popularity" metric). Why it still isn't in official repos?

I understand why things like yay or google-chrome isn't in official repos, but browsers like LibreWolf seems reasonable to include. Other browsers Brave, Zen, Ungoogled Chromium isn't in official repos too, but Vivaldi is.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If ever Firefox actually starts to disgust me and not just disappoint me, I'll stop maintaining it and look at forks.

But it won't be Librewolf, because the default settings are just a cargo-cult of self-contradictory "privacy enhancements" without any sane threat model that make the browsing experience much worse for little gain.