Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

[Mustafa Muhammad]

On Aug 11, 2015 10:38 PM, "Chris Murphy" <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Josh Stone <jistone at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 08/11/2015 12:12 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >> Yet I see a Linux tar.bz2 for Firefox at downloads.mozilla.org so I
> >> wonder why that binary doesn't just run unmodified anywhere and I'm
> >> waiting for 40.0 to show up in Bodhi?
> >
> > If you don't see the value of distro integration and testing, then by
> > all means, go use mozilla's binaries.
>
> I do not see the value in manually checking koji for Firefox updates
> and then manually downloading and installing them. That's just not
> going to happen by pretty much anybody. I have u-t enabled, I do
> testing, this update is not in u-t yet.
>
> If I knew Mozilla's Linux binaries provided its own update mechanism
> and notification, yes I would do exactly that.

I am pretty sure they get updated just like Windows and OS X binaries, but
the tar ball should be extracted in a user writable location.
I sometimes extract it into .firefox (hidden) folder in my home and create
a shortcut in KDE menu.

Mustafa

>And I'd still ask what
> the benefit is of duplicating this effort? It sounds like it's not
> actually a benefit, rather it's "because packaging".
>
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