-----Original Message----- From: Ludwig Nussel [mailto:ludwig.nussel@suse.de] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:14 AM To: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Anit-Vendor Change Extremism - Call for discussion
Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
IMHO rellying in Packman having a higher version-release isn't a great solution. It could easily happen that openSUSE provides multimedia_package-1.1-3.2 and Packman multimedia_package-1.1-3.1. Even if vendors are ignored YaST will not offer an update in this case. If you want an easy way of installing packages with patented codecs support, IMHO the most easy and reliable way is Packman creating metapackages. Something like... - gstreamer-packman - xine-packman - multimedia-packman (that requires gstreamer-packman and xine-packman) These metapackages could require an exact version-release (that can be updated automatically every time a new package is created).
Depends on what you want. Subpackages with matching version will work just fine if you just wanted to add support for additional formats or plugins to the existing xine/gstreamer of openSUSE. No need to replace anything. Packman however offers backports of new versions or even differently packaged versions.
cu Ludwig
If i understand correct, multimedia-packman could be something like CCCP codecs, or K-Lite Mega Codec pack for Microsoft Windows. It contains everything you need to play all popular video file formats. All needed codecs are included there and people don´t have to find which codec plays how format. All, like w32, libxine, lidvdcss etc. would be included in one multimedia pack. -- S pozdravom / Best regards, Rasto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org