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

Matthew Garrett mjg at redhat.com
Mon Apr 9 16:35:13 UTC 2012


On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 04:06:59PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:02:31 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > I like the idea to disallow this for say firefox plugins or httpd cgi
> > scripts,
> 
> 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.

I'd be surprised if Mozilla were fine with us disabling that kind of 
core Firefox functionality and still calling the end result Firefox.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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