Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Aug 12 08:34:08 UTC 2015



Am 12.08.2015 um 02:32 schrieb Florian Weimer:
> 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

because people are doing it wrong don't mean they should do it that way 
and that's what the OP said "should be extracted in a user writable 
location"

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