Am 07.11.2013 14:31, schrieb Per Jessen:
I think we ought to keep acroread in the distro simply because it's about usability. The current suggestions:
a) download it from adobe yourself b) use something else
are not good enough. If (a) was a real solution, why are we building building a distro at all. (b) is not a solution because there is no 100% replacement for acroread.
By removing acroread, we are sacrificing critical usability because of a rule about unmaintained software. I suggest we reconsider and wait until the alternatives have caught up. Once we have a mature plug-compatible alternative, we can remove acroread.
"unmaintained" alone is not the big deal. But known exploited security issues probably are. Unmaintained software can still get band-aids to fix security stuff usually if it's OSS. Shipping acroread further means putting known security backdoors into user's systems. To the other comment: We are building a distribution out of free software to make it easy for people to start working immediately. acroread is not part of the operating system, it's not OSS, it's not maintained which for non-OSS means, it's vulnerable by design and I guess its track record proves that it is highly vulnerable. And I really would hope we could ditch Flash now but the alternatives there are not really existant yet. In case of PDF they are good enough though. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org