<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Matthew Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattdm@fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">mattdm@fedoraproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1mk" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">It's important to note that "popularity" is not the sole reason for<br>
exceptions for Firefox. Overall, everyone should review the existing<br>
discussion in the guidelines about bundling exceptions and consider how<br>
this might fit in (possibly including revisions if they make sense):<br>
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Some_reasons_you_might_be_granted_an_exception" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Some_reasons_you_might_be_granted_an_exception</a></div></blockquote></div><br>Matt,</div><div class="gmail_extra">My intent on this thread was simply to bring this topic to the forefront and generate some discussion. It was not to </div><div class="gmail_extra">challenge the guidelines. The first discussions regarding this I found were in 2009, and quite a few things have changed</div><div class="gmail_extra">since then. In 2009 one could not argue that Chromium was "To Big To Fail" - I'm not too sure about that now; especially</div><div class="gmail_extra">in light of the recent Konqueror discussion which highlighted the fact that Fedora is highly dependent on Firefox. </div><div class="gmail_extra">Firefox ends up being the default choice because it is the ONLY choice. That is becoming an untenable situation. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>