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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; I always have to look up the arcane method for replacing them with the Packman packages. Leslie -- Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64