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How long does it take to build LibreWolf?
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I am on Guix System. Right now, I have access to IceCat from guix and Firefox from nonguix, of which I have GC'ed Firefox, and modified IceCat, sticking to sane privacy defaults (uBlock Origin + LibRedirect + Dark Reader).
Because I have 120GB of storage, and use Nix side-by-side for personal project, there is barely any space for another third-party package manager, as well as the stuff it will download. I use Guix Home, so having another package manager would also be counterproductive to my effort of creating a reproducibile home user configuration.
Alright then. Have fun compiling an entire web browser...
TIL the things to build a browser take up less space than a package manager... But I don't do Linux any more hardcore than Ubuntu either
Since builds on Guix are transitive, most of the libraries have been downloaded already when I installed IceCat and Firefox. The biggest headache is trying to build NSS, followed by LibreWolf.