Mozilla plugins packaging [Re: SELinuxDenyPtrace: Write, compile, run, but don't debug applications?]

[drago01]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 9.4.2012 16:06, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>>
>> Wouldn't it be better to package Mozilla plugins in Fedora so that they
>> are
>> trusted?  And then disable Firefox plugins downloads the same way as there
>> is
>> Firefox updater disabled (--disable-updater) as it would
>> conflict/duplicate
>> the rpm packaging of Firefox anyway.
>
>
> Yes, it would be nice ... except there are so many addons to package (and
> some bugs which make it difficult to package Mozilla extensions as Fedora
> packages ... I cannot find them ATM in bugzilla.mozilla.org, but they are
> there). Observing a problems with maintaining only few Firefox addons we
> have already packaged for Fedora, doesn't give me much hope we can package a
> reasonable majority of addons Fedora users have installed.

We don't even have a package installation gui that does not suck i.e
is usable for most users.
Going to a website and click "install this addon" is way easier from a
users pov.