Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 11.08.2015 um 22:18 schrieb Mustafa Muhammad:
>  > 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

nonsense

*if* you use binary tarballs they *should not* be extracted in a user 
writeable location as *no binary* whenever possible should have 
permissions allowing a ordinary user to change them

they should be extracted to /usr/local/ with root-only write-permissions 
and you have to just start the application as root for updates - not 
only on Linux, on *any* operating system

and since most users are not able to cope with this security principals 
package managers exists
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http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO/file-security.html

World-writable files, particularly system files, can be a security hole 
if a cracker gains access to your system and modifies them. 
Additionally, world-writable directories are dangerous, since they allow 
a cracker to add or delete files as he wishes
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as long as you did not inherit that principles you have no clue about 
security and will be the first victim of exploits on non-windows systems

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