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

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 04/10/2012 09:24 AM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:07:45 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Jan Kratochvil wrote:
>>> This is still unrelated to the point whether Fedora is a Free distro
>>> or not (it is not due to Linux firmwares - this part is known). So why
>>> isn't Flash + acroread etc. also installed by default or be available
>>> in repositories?
>> 
>> Because Fedora IS a Free Software distribution,
> 
> OK. So what is the difference that Mozilla plugins repository is
> preconfigured but RPMfusion/RPMforge/Adobe repositories are not
> preconfigured.
> 
> I find these proprietary repositories have equal attributes, don't they?
> 
> Either Fedora forbids accessibility of any non-Free software and therefore
> it should forbid also Mozilla plugins.
> 
> Or Fedora is OK with installing non-Free software into it but then the
> Adobe repository should be made preconfigured because it is even
> significantly more convenient for end-user than the already preconfigured
> Mozilla repository.
> 
> 
> Thanks, Jan

Can we change the title on this conversation since it has nothing to do with
the DenyPtrace feature.