On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 15:12 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 21:35 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > > > > > I saw Ubuntu is puting Firefox' addons to repo. > > > > > > > > I wonder why, while Firefox has now integrated search for addons and > > > > better addons site is planned... > > > > > > > > I don't think we should package extensions, but what do you think about > > > > that situation in U? > > > > > > Packaging addons makes perfect sense. As much as does packaging CPAN > > > modules. You get benefits of a good packaging and update system with > > > that. Obvious examples are ability to put the addon into repository and > > > add it to your kickstart, or stay up-to date with security fixes. > > > > > > > > > You take some very bad examples to highlight a need for packing and > > update system. Both the Firefox addons and CPAN modules already have > > good mechanisms for this. > > They do not. They can never compare with updatesd, can not cooperate > with it. I am not aware if they integrate with policykit or > consolehelper to allow unprivileged user to update, not if they > integrate with puplet to let him know that he has to update. I don't know about CPAN, but any user can install a Firefox extension... if you moved it to RPM you would have to block firefox from doing it itself, or would there be duplicates? -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
