[CentOS] Google Chrome and CentOS 6?

Mon Apr 18 14:06:56 UTC 2016
Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org> wrote:

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> On 18/04/16 14:15, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> > Thanks. I imagine (hope?) there shouldn't be too much effort to get
> > this to work, since it's already been done upstream. RedHat
> > continues to push out updates even. E.g.
> > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html
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> that looks like Supplementary content - we've never had that before.
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> what we might need to do here is work the upstream beyond Red Hat
> where this works done, that makes it Supplementary content and not
> completely open source. Do we atleast know at this point what that
> might be ?
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> regards
>
> - --
> Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project


I suspect it has to do with their "pepperflash" flash plugin.

Clearly flash is on the way out, so any support for it is not necessary.

-- 
Matt Phelps
System Administrator, Computation Facility
Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu