Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

Haïkel hguemar at fedoraproject.org
Wed Aug 12 13:21:50 UTC 2015


Le 11 août 2015 5:08 PM, "Chris Adams" <linux at cmadams.net> a écrit :
>
> 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

No, no and no.
FF and Chromium are not the same, Chromium brings bundling and crappy
practices at whole another scale.
We're not treating Chromium any differently, there are good reasons it's
not in our repo while FF is.

> it?  Sounds like spot is the only person working on packaging.
>

Spot is likely in the best spot to judge if Chromium could be submitted
even with exceptions.

H.

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