Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (205 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 25 November 2011 01:58:18 Sankar P wrote:
> > > > On 11/25/2011 at 02:08 PM, in message 
<4ECF53F4.8020306@xxxxxxx>,
> > > > Ludwig Nussel
> <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sankar P wrote:
> > > Out-of-the-box (probably bikesheddy) suggestion. Why should 
we build
> > > chrome by ourselves at all ? We do not have any patches made 
from
> > > SUSE
> > > for chromium which will be in upstream only in future 
releases (say
> > > like the Kernel). We can just get the latest Chrome for 
openSUSE
> > > from
> > > www.google.com/chrome
> >
> > Are you saying we should encourage users to install 
[proprietary] binary
> > rpms from random sites on the Internet? Or are you saying we 
should
> > encourage Google to maintain their openSUSE packages in 
Factory/update
> > repos ie make them easily available to users and conform to our
> > packaging policies?
>
> We definitely can ask Google to maintain their openSUSE specific 
rpm build
> in OBS. However I doubt if they will be ready to conform to our 
packaging
> policies etc. My suggestion was the former.
>
> I agree that some may feel paranoid about installing binary rpm 
from a third
> party site. For most people, Google has a higher level of trust 
than some
> random site. Also, people already install VLC player from 3rd 
party site. I
> personally don't feel paranoid about installing chrome from 
Google's site.
> So I gave that suggestion. I agree that it may not be suitable 
for all.

For example, Google's google talk voice RPM that chromium lets you 
install both silently registered their repository (to keep it up to 
date) and installed a cronjob to re-register their repository if 
you remove it, when I looked at its scripts last year. That 
deviates too far from acceptable behaviour, in my opinion.

Will
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