Mozilla plugins packaging [Re: SELinuxDenyPtrace: Write, compile, run, but don't debug applications?]
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Apr 10 02:41:46 UTC 2012
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.
"Mozilla plugins" is usually a euphemism for proprietary crap, most often
Flash. We cannot package that in Fedora. The Free Software stuff isn't
usually a security risk in the first place.
Kevin Kofler
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