JP Rosevear wrote:

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:10 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:

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Hallo.

I would like to propose two new repositories:

multimedia:codec for libraries and similar infrastructure for multimedia formats. Examples of packages: libogg, libvorbis, libdvdnav, libdvdread, libsidplay, wavpack,...

multimedia:gstreamer010 or GNOME:GSTREAMER010 or so (exact case and name is not sure): Move gstreamer packages from GNOME:*STABLE here. This project will be build against multimedia:codec repository to have the latest codecs.

I don't see a particular reason to fragment repositories, our goal should be fewer, larger repositories that are available to regular end users at large to reduce confusion (ala metaverse).

I see:

Packages like wavpack, avifile, libexif, nvtv, (but also e. g. pilot-link, libgadu, meanwhile, gphoto) have no relation with GNOME. But we have them in GNOME:* to be able to compile multimedia packages and gstreamer for older distros.

Having a repository, where all codecs can be in the latest version would be a better solution.

Having one package in more repositories is sub-optimal as well.