Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (282 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le lundi 04 octobre 2010, à 13:11 +0200, Will Stephenson a écrit :
> On Sunday 03 October 2010 12:40:27 Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010, à 04:29 +0100, Nelson Marques a écrit :
> > > > It is very different, Multimedia codecs, are unfortunately widely
> > > > patented :|
> > >
> > > How would it be if YaST could allow the users to enable some
> > > repositories during installation process?
> > >
> > > That could probably be a cool feature even to use with OBS repositories.
> > > In other words, could we offer during install that the users could
> > > enable official VLC depot or packman depot ? Would we still be under the
> > > patents hammer (imagining we're placing a disclaimer?)?
> >
> > FWIW, what we want to do in GNOME is to configure the needed
> > repositories (for codecs, eg) when they are needed. That is, when you
> > need a codec but don't have it. It feels better from a UI point of view,
> > imho, but the legal team is reviewing if that makes sense.
>
> This is what we're almost doing in KDE in 11.3 with ksuseinstall - provide a 
> way to look for needed codecs or allow the user to add needed repositories 
> when an app needs them, not at install time.  The missing part is not 
> directly 
> registering any particular repo.  Are you looking at doing that?

We're first waiting on feedback from legal to see what can be done :-)

Vincent

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