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

2015-08-14 Thread Gerald B. Cox
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > To understand the work this has created for Debian users and > maintainers, you may want to review this bug report which has ultimately > been traced to bundled library issues: > > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=501318

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

2015-08-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 11/08/15 20:25, Gerald B. Cox wrote: ... > Things have also changed over the years, and Chrome/Chromium's > popularity has continued to grow and is now packaged in Ubuntu, Debian > and Suse. Firefox has exceptions mainly because it is deemed "to > popular" to keep out of the distribution.

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

2015-08-12 Thread Neal Gompa
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:11:39PM -0400, Gary Gatling wrote: > > > I realize we have our guidelines and we're not Debian, Suse or > Ubuntu... > > > and that's a good thing. But, if we're making exceptions for Firefox > > > because of it'

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

2015-08-12 Thread 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 revision

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

2015-08-12 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:11:39PM -0400, Gary Gatling wrote: > > I realize we have our guidelines and we're not Debian, Suse or Ubuntu... > > and that's a good thing. But, if we're making exceptions for Firefox > > because of it's popularity shouldn't we do the same for Chromium. > I agree with G