On 12/12/2011 02:46 PM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
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.
Sorry, I meant "supplied from it's repo" as factory does not supply the RPM. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org