sense of packaging firefox' addons?

[Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek]

Peter Gordon pisze:
> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 21:35 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
>> I don't think we should package extensions, but what do you think about
>> that situation in U?
>
> Aside from the issues already mentioned in this thread, I think other
> reasons to have them packaged is _trust_ and _quality_.
>
> For example, would you install the extension from a website which you're
> not familiar with...or would you install it from the same place from
> where you install every other software on your computer? Having them in
> a Fedora-friendly package means that they are less of a hassle to
> install, can be automated into an installation (via kickstart and
> friends), and are otherwise far better integrated into the Fedora system
> as a whole. Plus, having it installed from a Fedora repo, a user will be
> extremely more confident that the extension works well and is kept
> up-to-date with the rest of their system.
>

It may be up-to-date with system, but not with self (read: outdated 
addon in repo).