Hello, On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Stan Goodman wrote: [..]
openSUSE has to ship due to local laws." Now I have reread it more carefully; what it seems to be saying is that I need to keep the existing vlc repo in addition to adding packman.inode.at/suse/11.4. Am I know reading it correctly?
If you're careful, yes, you can keep both repos, but you should prioritize one repo (I vote for packman) over the other, e.g. let videolan at the default priority of 99 and give packman e.g. a priority of 80. That way, you won't pingpong e.g. 'vlc' between packman and videolan and you should also get all libs from the same repo. With one exception: packman doesn't package libcss. So get that from videolan and the rest from packman. If you want to prefer the videolan repo, give that the prio of 80 and leave packman at 99, and get vlc and the libs videolan packages from the videolan-repo. But be aware that that may cause trouble with other programs (e.g. mplayer, xine, ...) that also use that lib but that videolan does not package. The problem is that those programs and the libs (most critically ffmpeg, i.e. libavcode, libavformat etc.) are rather snugly intertwined. So much so, that e.g. handbrake brings it's own copy of ffmpeg and other stuff and links that statically. So, again, in a nutshell, my recommendation: - add videolan with prio 99 - add packman with prio 80 - install vlc (from packman) - install (only) libcss from videolan HTH, -dnh -- Why do you focus so much on _new_ technology? -- New is better. Is nothink old that is better than new. -- Yes there is. -- Da? Namink one then. -- The Original Pentium versus counting on your fingers. -- Da. Da. "Don't divide. Intel inside" [Sid & Pitr in userfriendly] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org