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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by _emacsomancer_ on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:33AM (#20292661)
Nix packages it: https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html#brave , which means you could use the Nix stand-alone package manager to install it on top of any distro. (I just tried this and am typing this from Brave, installed via the Nix stand-alone package manager running in Void Linux.)
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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by bubblethink on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:32PM (#20297207)
It's fetching brave's binary. That's not what I meant by packaging.

src = fetchurl { url = "https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v${... sha256 = "1lbajxnxqkd422rckfjm65pwwzl66v7anq4jrzxi29d5x7abl3c1"; };

Also, bad look for nixos. I was curious about nixos too, but it'll have to be debian and fedora for now.

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Re:Brave Improves Its Ad-Blocker Performance with New Engine... by _emacsomancer_ on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:58PM (#20299265)
Fair point, though I don't know what would go into properly packaging Brave.

They certainly don't package Brave in any fashion, but if you were curious about NixOS, you might look at Guix System.

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