[Fedora-packaging] Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

[Alec Leamas]

On 12/08/15 17:14, Matthew Miller wrote:

> It's important to note that "popularity" is not the sole reason for
> exceptions for Firefox. Overall, everyone should review the existing
> discussion in the guidelines about bundling exceptions and consider how
> this might fit in (possibly including revisions if they make sense):
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries#Some_reasons_you_might_be_granted_an_exception


Well, while true (I think), isn't  this only one side of the coin? The 
other is then the unresolved question how to make it easier to establish 
a useful set of tools which includes sw which for good reasons 
(non-free, GL breakage, etc) cannot be part of Fedora.

I wish I had some good solution, but... However, note all these 
"post-install" Fedora howtos out there which describes how to install 
things which is needed for many users, but cannot be part of Fedora 
repos (Chromium is one example). Is there really nothing we can do about 
this?

"scratching my head"

--alec