[Mageia-dev] [Bug 1050] unable to read mp3 with KDE-liveCD beta2 : possible solutions

Tue Oct 11 09:24:04 CEST 2011

Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2011, 02:51:58 schrieb Philippe DIDIER:
+> 5) you need to choose to add gstreamer-plugins-ugly (which allows to
+> read mp3 files and nevertheless is in core repo but not on the LiveCD ?! )
+Since in core repo are how many GigaBytes of packages and you have 700MB of 
+space on a CD. Are you seriously asking why one package isn't included in the 
+CD?
+I don't say, this special package shouldn't be included, but it wasn't. In 
+this case you could say: shit happens...
+But do you have any idea how hard it is to select the right packages for 
+having as much features as possible and still staying under 700MB?
+
+>    I complained on Mandriva Bugzilla for the same problem since Mandriva
+> One 2010.0 (liveCD) ; until 2008.1, LiveCD could read mp3 files out of
+> the box ... for 2009.0 and 2009.1 I don't know : I never could even
+> correctly boot with those LiveCD freezing )
+To be honest, what are you doing about those issues you are naming on the 
+lists, besides complaining about them?
+
+Oliver
+