On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 6:44 AM Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3/2/22 04:05, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 02/03/2022 01:21, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > >> What are the differences between the RPMFusion SRPM and the > >> Fedora SRPM? > > > > RPM Fusion version includes all available multimedia codecs. > > That doesn’t explain why RPM Fusion gets updates so much more > quickly. > > >> Tom Callaway, what is the hardest part for you? > > > > Packaging of Google's software is a nightmare. They do their best to > > make packaging as difficult as possible by using dozens of bundled > > libraries, their own build system, etc. > > In the case of something like Chromium, a sloppy package that gets > timely updates is better than a fully conforming package that does not. You do not know what you're asking for. You're asking for packaging where we may wind up having things of questionable legality, questionable licensing, and questionable integration that can cause serious issues for Fedora users and downstreams. As a security person, you should be ashamed that you thought this was a good idea. Maximizing reuse across the Fedora ecosystem provides significant benefits because we are able to leverage our quality components, our hardening capabilities, and provide additional capabilities to benefit consumption within the Fedora ecosystem. For example, Fedora's Chromium will attempt to use Wayland by default on a Wayland desktop. Upstream Chrom(e|ium) is not ready for that yet. We ship VA-API integration, which Google doesn't offer. We have working screencasting on Wayland, which upstream doesn't have right now by default. We can enable security features that upstream refuses to (CaBLE, for example). And so on. Those features provide tangible benefits to the community at large that we would lose by "sloppy packaging". Instead of kvetching, why not try helping? Maybe *ask* Tom what you could do to help him ship newer versions? The same goes for everyone else on this thread so far. I'm disappointed by the OP and everyone else in this thread who thinks it's okay to do less than a good job on shipping software. The only complaint I could probably see is that the patches he's got haven't been submitted upstream, but submitting to Chromium upstream is *hard* (I've made contributions to Chromium and it's really not easy to do) and I assume he's working on it. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
