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Description:
pip allows the user to search and install packages from the PyPi repository, which contains proprietary software.

Additional info:
* example of proprietary package in PyPi repository: https://pypi.org/project/snaplogic * Trisquel’s solution was to remove python-pip: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/3741

Steps to reproduce:
$ sudo pacman -S python-pip
$ pip search snaplogic # prints information about proprietary package
$ pip install snaplogic # installs proprietary package

Description:

minidlna lacks openrc support and includes a systemd file

Additional info: none

Steps to reproduce:

$ sudo pacman -S minidlna
$ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/minidlna.service

Description:
Screen locking does not work in GNOME, either with keyboard shortcuts or from the menu, while using LightDM.

Additional info:
* According to this thread[1] this bug has been patched in Ubuntu. Please consider applying this patch.[2]

Steps to reproduce:
# pacman -S gnome lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter
# rc-update add lightdm default
Reboot, log in to a GNOME session and attempt to lock screen.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/9klvej/is_there_a_way_to_get_the_screen_to_lock_with/ [2] https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/tree/debian/patches/ubuntu/lightdm-user-switching.patch

Description:

Searx is better in the short term than search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo in that the client-side JavaScript is free and the server-side code is free and public. However, in the long term it can never be a real replacement for non-free search engines while it relies on non-free search engines for data. At this time, the major general purpose search engines who use their own data are all controlled by corporations like Google and Microsoft. The YaCy search engine addresses this by relying on decentralized data based on p2p.

For this reason, I believe that YaCy is socially a better choice than Searx as the default search engine for Iceweasel-UXP. However, it is not at this time a practically better choice. Since YaCy relies on its users to index the web, and does not currently have many users, the search results are not very good. This creates a chicken-and-egg problem, since it will be difficult for YaCy to gain users while its search results are poor.

However, Searx supports YaCy as a source of search engine results. I don’t know of any Searx instances which have YaCy support enabled, presumably since YaCy support would only be useful to users who have YaCy installed locally and running on http://localhost:8090, but Hyperbola could run its own Searx instance, enable YaCy support plus DuckDuckGo, and make this the default search engine for Iceweasel-UXP. This way, Iceweasel-UXP users can use and contribute to YaCy, but supplement YaCy’s search results with results from DuckDuckGo until YaCy becomes strong enough to stand on its own.

Additional info:

* AUR package for YaCy: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yacy

* Searx support for YaCy: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/blob/master/searx/engines/yacy.py

Steps to reproduce: N/A