On 2021-08-27 18:23:46 Carlos E. R. wrote:
|On 28/08/2021 01.20, J Leslie Turriff wrote: |> On 2021-08-27 18:00:04 Carlos E. R. wrote: |>> |> 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. |>> | |>> |That would be worse. |> |> Why? Users who want working codecs can just get them from Packman. |> OpenSuSE is then not involved at all. |> I have never been able to view videos in any viewer software with the |> packages that OpenSuSE provides; | |Because those videos were not free. | |And remember that besides getting packman packages, you could instead |purchase the codecs legally. It is your decision to install packman |packages instead.
In fact, I belive that I have paid for those in the past, but I don't remember where or who to get them from. Leslie -- Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64