Le jeudi 28 février 2008 à 02:07 -0800, Andrew Farris a écrit : > On a multi-user system yes, I suppose that is worrisome. But on a single user > desktop, even in an enterprise environment.. you're assuming that a user is more > likely to apply updates when packagekit tells them they are available versus the > browser checking every time it opens for the day? I highly doubt it. Doubt all your want. Some users will go out of their way to bitrot their desktop by downloading all kinds of dubious code from the internet (and do a tantrum if you don't let them). Others are extremely conservative, they still use the OS default wallpaper 3 years after its installation, and they only trust the OS updates (esp. if someone else manages them). The Firefox extension system was designed for the first class of users. Extension packaging would work for the second class of users. BTW there is no relation between IT proficiency and this. You find aunt Tillies in both categories, and software developers likewise. Moreover you have all sorts of tools to deploy rpms on a set of computers (yum is not the only one). That's not the case for xpi files. Any entity that considers a medium-to-large Firefox deployment quickly finds out IE users will only accept a Firefox sweetened with a few extensions, that most of them won't install those extensions themselves at first, that MoFo forgot centralised extension management, and therefore a Firefox trial is too resource-intensive to consider seriously (that's sad for Linux desktops that absolutely rely on Firefox). Anyway I don't see what makes you all go into flammes. You don't like packages extensions don't install the extension packages. Nobody is going to kill the firefox extension manager in the short term. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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