Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/www/firefox

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 12:23:38PM +0200, Jan-Hinrich Fessel wrote:
> I have a bad feeling about this...

I understand that very well ;-)
But this is not the place to discuss, direct comments at mozilla directly.

A pkgsrc firefox should be as close to upstream builds as possible, unless
pkgsrc options are used to make it different by choice.

> > I totaly agree, it is a privacy disaster in all setups that had their
> > own (caching) DNS server already.
> 
> Sure, also in split-horizons and some other common setups...
> 
> > It is easy to globaly disable in your local DNS though,
> > google for: use-application-dns.net <http://use-application-dns.net/>
> 
> Sorry, but its not that easy, for at least two reasons.  Cited from the web-page this refers to:

I should have said: in all setups I am in controll of the local DNS it was
easy to work around (see above) and I explicitly informed users about
this. Most did not care (or understand), a few were very happy about the
"global" disabling.

And I was happy as I did not have to touch tens of my own setups plus push
users to double check theirs.

Martin