On 20 November 2012 08:51, Stephan Kulow
On 19.11.2012 08:16, Raymond Wooninck wrote:
Dear openSUSE users,
Since this morning, the Chromium browser will no longer be maintained on the openSUSE OBS, nor will it be provided together with the openSUSE distribution.
Instead the Chromium browser will be build on Packman and be available for the already supported openSUSE versions. This new version will replace the chromium-ffmpeg package that was already delivered through Packman.
In the next days, I will delete the Chromium package from it's home location network:chromium and also send a delete request to openSUSE:Factory.
The reason for this change is that ffmpeg support is becoming more and more integrated with the browser itself, making it very hard to remove the ffmpeg related sourcefiles and still keeping a workable browser. In the last few weeks, I tried everything to keep Chromium part of the openSUSE distribution but unfortunately I failed. And as we all know ffmpeg is one of those packages that are not allowed to be present on the openSUSE OBS. Therefore the only logical decision was to move Chromium completely to Packman. The new package will be a full enabled Chromium with build-in support for ffmpeg.
The usual question arises: what are other distributions are doing? Chromium is pretty popular there too I suppose.
Well it looks like Fedora do NOT have the Chromium browser in their hosted repos - their equivalent to OBS. Ubuntu do have Chromium as part of their Universe repo, but their repo layout is somewhat confusing to say the least from a legal perspective.
We can't have ffmpeg sources on OBS, but what exactly does chromium need to compile in OBS? Would a ffmpeg stub package be sufficient?
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