Re: Is it time to allow Chromium in Fedora?

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On 12 August 2015 at 12:25, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> >>>>> "GBC" == Gerald B Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> GBC> My intent on this thread was simply to bring this topic to the
>> GBC> forefront and generate some discussion.
>>
>> I have noticed a bit of complaining that FPC is being unfair in keeping
>> Chromium out of the distribution, or that we're not evenly applying the
>> bundled library policy.  I would like to make it clear that without an
>> active package review and anyone actually submitting an exception
>> request to FPC relating to that package review, FPC hasn't applied any
>> policy at all.  FPC has never even had the chance to consider the
>> issue.  I can't speak for how this would be received by FPC because
>> I simply don't have enough information.  The discussion in this thread
>> hasn't really been about the actual bundling.
>>
>>  - J<
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>
> Wait, what? No one has actually tried to submit Chromium to Fedora yet? I
> thought it had already happened once, hence the page on the wiki.
>
>

No, people have always gone with the "Someone really ought to package
up Chromium" and then argued that X, Y or Z should do it for them..




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