opensuse-mutimedia repository?
Hi! I just began to try OpenSuSE. My distribution of choice was Ubuntu before. I noticed that - compared to Ubuntu - it is really hard in OpenSuSE to get a great multimedia experience. Ubuntu has the (more or less) official universe and multiverse repositories which include most multimedia packages + a meta package. You just have to install the meta package and you get a nice multimedia experience. In OpenSuSE, you have to add packman or guru which is not bad. But those repositories also update packages which you may want to keep. I personally want my system to consist of as much official packages as possible. It is not that important to me to have the latest versions. So I wanted to ask if there is something like a opensuse-multimedia repository, which does not contain lots of updated packaged (of course, libxine would have to get updated) and nice multimedia packages like w32codecs (?) libdvdcss (?), dvdrip, various gstreamer packages, lame and so on. If there is nothing similar currently, I'd like to hear some feedback and discuss with you guys. Maybe we can install the OpenSuSE buildservice on an own server and do opensuse-multimedia then? Cheers, Martin
Martin Jürgens
Hi!
I just began to try OpenSuSE. My distribution of choice was Ubuntu before.
I noticed that - compared to Ubuntu - it is really hard in OpenSuSE to get a great multimedia experience. Ubuntu has the (more or less) official universe and multiverse repositories which include most multimedia packages + a meta package.
You just have to install the meta package and you get a nice multimedia experience.
You can get a multimedia.pat from me, I am using it in Jacklab for a default selection in Yast.
In OpenSuSE, you have to add packman or guru which is not bad. But those repositories also update packages which you may want to keep.
I personally want my system to consist of as much official packages as possible. It is not that important to me to have the latest versions.
So I wanted to ask if there is something like a opensuse-multimedia repository, which does not contain lots of updated packaged (of course, libxine would have to get updated) and nice multimedia packages like w32codecs (?) libdvdcss (?), dvdrip, various gstreamer packages, lame and so on.
You should write to packman@links2linux.de to. Guru will still read there ;)
If there is nothing similar currently, I'd like to hear some feedback and discuss with you guys. Maybe we can install the OpenSuSE buildservice on an own server and do opensuse-multimedia then?
Another repo with multimedia packages?
Cheers, Martin
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Hi!
You can get a multimedia.pat from me, I am using it in Jacklab for a default selection in Yast.
Thanks, but though smart upgrade will upgrade other packages like vsftpd as they appear in newer version in packman - and this is the thing I do not want :)
You should write to packman@links2linux.de to. Guru will still read there ;)
Will do, maybe they can just create a small repository which consists of their multimedia packages :)
Another repo with multimedia packages?
Another repo wird multimedia packages *only*, and not other updated packages like xchat / vsftpd and so on
Olli
Thanks for your reply! Martin
Martin Jürgens
In OpenSuSE, you have to add packman or guru which is not bad. But those repositories also update packages which you may want to keep.
If they depend on those updated packages, you have no choice - the only other choice is to decide not to install the new application! Multimedia in Linux is beginning to pick up pace, and the developers tend to use the latest releases of dependent packages. Oliver, Michael, Edgar, etc at JAD, Pascal the Guru, and the people at Packman are doing a very impressive (and communautaire!) job of building out multimedia packages for openSUSE - the quality is so good that there is very little likelihood of damage to your system. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg www.klebran.org.uk - Gwirydd gramadeg rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.rhedadur.org.uk - Rhedeg berfau Cymraeg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-multimedia+help@opensuse.org
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