Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Wed Aug 12 00:32:41 UTC 2015


On 08/11/2015 10:29 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

Please be more respectful to others.  What happened to the “Friends”
part of Fedora?

> *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

This is simply not the way how end users install original Mozilla
Firefox binaries.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security


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