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

Tue Oct 11 09:36:27 CEST 2011

+----- "Oliver Burger" <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> a écrit :
+
+> 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 agree this is hard. And maybe the problem is that gstreamer-plugins-ugly should be required by amarok, as long as there is no codeina equivalent to install codecs when needed.
+
+I've just experienced this problem with a friend, and yes this is hard to understand from a user point of view.
+