Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (648 mails)

[Cristian Morales Vega <cmorve69@xxxxxxxx>]

2010/11/19 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>:
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> On 11/19/2010 03:14 PM, Martin Schlander wrote:
> > Fredag den 19. november 2010 20:54:11 skrev Jeff Mahoney:
> > > The expressions on their faces when they see
> > > how many ridiculous hoops I need to jump through to configure the
> > > Packman repository and then replace the codecs changes to exasperation
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> > You mean go to a website like opensuse-community.org or opensuse-guide.org,
> > click on a codec 1-click, then click next a couple of times, accept vendor
> > change. Done. Or copy/paste a couple of zypper commands.
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> I've been a SUSE/openSUSE user for 11 years and didn't know that the
> codec 1-click existed. That would be easy -- but how about actually
> making it easily available to the user? Having it on a web site out
> there - even one that's supposedly "obvious" is an extra step that most
> users don't even know about. gstreamer has a "go-find-a-plugin"
> component that doesn't even work.

The latest said about this was
(http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2010-03/msg00138.html):
"The problem is that we should not even encourage too much usage of
such packages. Don't ask what that means exactly, because I don't know, and
probably not even lawyers know for sure, but something like "MP3 support is
missing, press Yes to install it from Packman" is simply very unlikely to
make it past our lawyers. I think the guideline could be that the user has to
know it's an extra and that it's not part of openSUSE, and thus has to make
at least some effort, not just confirm a dialog. There is a reason why adding
community repositories in Yast fetches a list of those from a 3rd party site
and knows nothing else than the URL of that list. Yes, this all sucks."

So, if you want a lot of links making obvious were those 1-Click links
are, ask Novell's Legal Department. You are not going to get an answer
here since lawyers never speak in public.
I don't think they will agree. But at some point they said KTorrent
could not be shipped with DHT support and then they changed his
minds... so, good luck.
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