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 dan...@pocock.pro 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:

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 Gerald.

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 revisions

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 mat...@fedoraproject.org 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

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. I