Package request: floorp

[zukas97]

Package name

floorp

Package homepage

https://floorp.app/en

Description

Floorp is a highly customizable browser based on firefox's gecko engine.

Does the requested package meet the package requirements?

Compiled

Is the requested package released?

Yes

[classabbyamp]

Browser forks, including those based on Chromium and Firefox, are generally not accepted. Such forks require heavy patching, maintenance and hours of build time.

[Luciogi]

Get tar files from them extract it and use it, just manually update them

[cplir-c]

Classabbyamp quoted the Contibuting.md document that the issue template has us read.

I think that section means that Chromium and Firefox forks won't be accepted other than in the unlikely case that there's a strong enough reason for the Void Linux maintainers to put many hours into adapting/updating the respective Firefox patches or Chromium patches and ensuring the package builds and works properly with the rest of the system.
In addition to the base maintainer burden, building Firefox takes a few hours and lots of computing resources (in my opinion; about 8GiB RAM), making it much harder (slower) to test whether the patches and the browser worked properly.

[zukas97]

Classabbyamp quoted the Contibuting.md document that the issue template has us read.

I think that section means that Chromium and Firefox forks won't be accepted other than in the unlikely case that there's a strong enough reason for the Void Linux maintainers to put many hours into adapting/updating the respective Firefox patches or Chromium patches and ensuring the package builds and works properly with the rest of the system. In addition to the base maintainer burden, building Firefox takes a few hours and lots of computing resources (in my opinion; about 8GiB RAM), making it much harder (slower) to test whether the patches and the browser worked properly.

you wouldn't need to recompile floorp. they release a binairy tarball as an option. Someone would just need to package it.

[classabbyamp]

we won't accept a binary package when source is available

[hunt3r0one]

You can try my template here