Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Graham Anderson <graham@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 06 Apr 2012 08:32:58 Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> Unfortunately, a big number of users, need this infamous plugin to work.
> And again, no luck to have a free alternative.
>
> In a few years ~2015/2016 html5/css3 will have replace it at 98% in popular
> website and perhaps 50% of application developed with flash will have
> change their technology.

Let the plugin live in some external repo. If users would like to use it they 
can just use their own good judgement ;) and install it from the community 
repo.

Frankly flash plugin is an abomnination and now we understand that it's no 
longer supported by Adobe it's the perfect time to drop it.

Flash plugin is buggy, full of security holes, inefficient and bloated. Lets 
treat it like we should treat any old unsupported software - remove it from 
the distro.