On 8/27/21 6:41 PM, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-08-26 16:58:53 Carlos E. R. wrote:
|Legal reasons, explained in some details in the Wiki. Search for |"restricted formats", I think is the name. | |It is simply illegal for a multinational company with concerns in the |USA to distribute those privative and protected (like patented) software |parts. Packman, being solely German and a volunteer concern, is not |affected. | |It has been explained thousands of times over the decades of |open/S[uU]SE existence. How is it, then, that the packages that you say cannot be distributed by OpenSuSE itself, have to be removed after distro installation, and replaced with the ones in the Packman repository that work? How can OpenSuSE provide those broken packages in the first place, if your assertion is true? OpenSuSE should just leave out those broken packages and let users install them directly from Packman.
Leslie -- Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Better yet, why not provide the Packman packages in the first place and forget the hocus-pocus? --doug