Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (175 mails)

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mardi 31 août 2010 à 14:19 +0200, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
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> On 2010-08-31 11:15, C wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:52, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
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> > As it is, the majority of openSUSE users are stuck if they want to use
> > Google Talk.  They cannot install the DEB file.. alien fails to build
> > an installable RPM, and we can't (for reasons stated) provide a build
> > in non-free.  So.. what do we do?  Say suck it up and use something
> > else?  Say too bad, go use Ubuntu?  Say, RTFM and point them at the
> > RPM man page?  (Serious questions by the way... more and more I'm
> > seeing 3rd parties who _used_ to build openSUSE RPMs aren't bothering
> > anymore... they just make the Ubuntu DEBs.)
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> And some provide an rpm built by alien from a deb, and don't even test to see 
> if it works - and doesn't.
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> > Maybe Google will provide an RPM at some point...who knows...
>
> I'm hoping for it. But they are taking their time :-(

It is available from Google website now.

Of course, you can use Empathy which supports audio and video calls with
Google Talk for almost a year now and is full Free Software.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Novell

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