Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (564 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/12/2011 01:30 PM, Juergen Weigert pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On Dec 12, 11 19:27:23 +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > Am Montag, 12. Dezember 2011, 19:20:23 schrieb C:
> > > This leads me to ask... since VLC in the Factory repo is so severely
> > > crippled that it appears to be completely unusable, why is anyone even
> > > bothering to put it in there?  I understand (and hate) the whole
> > > argument around codecs etc... that's not what I am asking here... If
> > > the player cannot be used for the vast majority of the videos is it
> > > worth the time and effort of including it in Factory?
> >
> > I guess it's the same reason openSUSE had libxine. You need it to build e.g.
> > phonon-backend-vlc and it should work for e.g. KDE's ogg system notifications.
>
> I fully agree with Sven. Crippled codec packages are okay as internal
> build dependencies, but should not ship. (At least not, with a name
> identical to the original.)
>
>          cheers,
>                  JW-

Maybe we can have it renamed to "Severely Crippled VLC". It would be a 
closer match to it's functionality as it is supplied from factory.

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Ken Schneider
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