sense of packaging firefox' addons?

[Andrew Farris]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  The builtin firefox addon update system works far faster for most desktop users
>>  than getting a new rpm packaged, built, and shipped... the popular addons become
>>  available for users almost as soon as the upstream posts them to the mozilla
>>  addon site.  You just restart the browser and you've got a notice of update.
> 
> 
> What about... Fedora livecd spins?  Would it make sense to put in
> end-user oriented plugins in our repository so that the people making
> spins can make use of them in the live image experiences?
> 
> -jef

I would say yes here, but of course addons are often updated and even if you did 
push out an addon in a livecd spin the addons would up out of date quickly.  If 
the user was keeping persistent state with a livecd spin they may prefer using 
the firefox installed addons directly in the user's profile.  The conflict of 
having both install choices is present there too if the persistent state stuff 
gets up to speed.

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