On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 15:33 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Many people do it, as it is one of the published methods in many places. Notice that it never is a single package you need. You need all the gstreamer packages in PM, and some other things. There are so many needed packages for full multimedia, and so easy to miss some of them (with strange symptoms), that the recommendation is either a zypper dup from packman, or a switch system packages to this repo in yast. Yes, that switches also some other packages I do not want, which I then switch back. These are fewer, so it is easier this way.
For GStreamer, this is only partially true.. the packaging is done in a way that all ADDED codecs (the patent problematic ones) are in an ADDON package (-addon-orig), intentionally for not having a need to replace base system packages. The same is true for the VLC package, where a vlc-codecs is produced, again, so that it can be EXTENDED instead of replaced. But as PM does not provide the persion of the base distribution for each repo, but the one linked from multimedia:libs, this is broken, ass there is likely a newer version there... and that's exactly why I do not use PackMan (but, yes, I am proficient enough in this stuff to manage my own setup). And as said: I do not use packman, yet can do all I need to do on my machine.. so claiming that you MUST have PM added is a bit over -enthusiastic.
And anyway, many/most/all? of the packages are in fact linked from OBS, or maintained by the same people as in OBS, so I basically have the same trust on PM as in oS :-)
most are linked to devel projects - which per definition are not forcibly ready for inclusion into the distribution... and often are in different versions to what was integrated. Often this is not a problem, sometimes they are not fully backwards compatible (as I don't run PM anymore for many years, I can't make a statement if this (still) happens or how often... but I certainly was bitten by that a couple years ago - which is why I stopped relying on this repo) Not to say you should not use it - if it works for you, by all means: do use it. Dominique -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>