Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

Neal Gompa ngompa13 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 01:33:16 UTC 2015


On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote:

> Once upon a time, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox at bzb.us> said:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote:
> > > What packaging exceptions are being made for Firefox?
> >
> > They can be found here:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
>
> So FF bundles a small number of libraries, and has an exception because
> of an "active security team".
>
> How many libraries does Chromium bundle?  How many people are working on
> it?  Sounds like spot is the only person working on packaging.
>
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​Chromium/Chrome also has a very active security team, so if that's the
reason for allowing it with Firefox, it could also be allowed for the same
reason.


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