[Slackbuilds-users] Chromium in Slackbuilds

[JCA]

Why not simply officially adopt the AlienBob version?

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:38 AM David O'Shaughnessy <lists at osh.id.au>
wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2018, at 5:44 PM, JCA wrote:
>
> The version of the Chromium from Slackbuilds is 53, whereas the latest is
> 71. I.e. 53 is well over two years old. Why is it being kept that old,
> especially bearing in mind that Slackware packages for the latest Chromium
> may be downloaded from
> http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/chromium. I mean, what is the
> point of keeping such an old version in Slackbuilds?
>
>
> Hard to say, I also think that it should be dropped. For many packages it
> seems quite alright to be behind the latest version, but I don't think a
> web browser is one of those packages (security comes to mind).
>
> --
> Dave
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