On 11/18/2010 04:47 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:39:40PM +0100, Magnus Glantz wrote: >> So.. >> Upside of patching: happy users :-) >> Downside of patching: unhappy developers :-( > and unhappy users because their software runs slower, apparently you've > (intentionally?) missed that. There is absolutely no reason to punish all > sanely written apps for one badly written proprietary one. As I said > earlier, if you can't live without the proprietary blob and for whatever > reason can't just use the 32-bit one using nspluginwrapper (as 64-bit one is > not in a yum repository using the 64-bit one is a security risk, because > very few people will keep tracking new versions of it, downloading them as > tarball and installing them), let's do the workarounds in nspluginwrapper or > browser for libflashplayer.so only, not in glibc where it will affect all > apps. > > Jakub Absolutely, I expressed myself a bit unclear. I'm sorry for that. I meant patching in general, doesn't have to be glibc. Just temporarily solving the issue, in general by patching something :-) //M -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
