On 1/26/21 6:23 PM, Konstantin Gizdov via arch-dev-public wrote:
This is histrionics. I don't see why we should ban the proprietary google-chrome package, which is already somewhat inconvenient to use because of the AUR, over politics. Where is your respect for the rights of our users?I am not sure how this would be taken, but I propose we not only remove it from the repos, but we clean the AUR of Chromium and Chrome too and we enforce no one uploads any more such variants. This, I believe, is the only way the message will be loud and clear to our users because people will have to really share Chrome PKGBUILDs on 3rd party platforms as if it were illegal. In the end, this is what Google wants, right!? We cannot distribute Chrome's binary nor can we build a functioning Chromium. They essentially want their software no where near our _dirty_ platform. I think we should abide.
We're not in the business of telling people they're not allowed to use the AUR for the express purpose which the AUR was created for. That's a REALLY hot take.
-- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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