[Mageia-dev] gstreamer0.10-faac - package request

Tue Jun 19 09:10:34 CEST 2012

Colin Guthrie wrote:
+
+> 'Twas brillig, and Simple w at 18/06/12 10:52 did gyre and gimble:
+>> 2012/6/17 Simple w <simplew8 at gmail.com>:
+>>> 2012/6/17 Rémi Verschelde
+>>> <remi at verschelde.fr>:
+
+[snip]
+
+>>>> Did you install gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad ?
+>>>
+>>> Yes
+>> 
+>> Packages like:
+>> 
+>> faac
+>> amrwb
+>> 
+>> couldnt exist in non-free repository?
+>> 
+>> I see that these packages for example in Fedora they exist in Rpm
+>> Fusion http://rpmfusion.org/
+>> Seams to be a repository for packages with license "issues".
+>> 
+>> Can this be reviewed in Mageia?
+>> Currently users are limited to handle video codifications and they
+>> dont have any option to install faac and amrwb.
+> 
+> As mentioned in the previous email, this particular bit of software has
+> both license issues *and* patent issues in some countries.
+> 
+> It's the combination of these two things that make things awkward for us
+> as we have:
+>  non-free (for software with license issues)
+> and
+>  tainted (for software with patent issues).
+> 
+> To ship this package we would need yet another repository:
+>  non-free+tainted
+> 
+> And this is the general dilemma. Too many media sources are confusing to
+> users. But clean separation is important for users who live in certain
+> jurisdictions (and also potentially for mirror servers in certain
+> jurisdictions who may not be able to carry tainted, but can carry
+> non-free)
+> 
+> Hope that explains the issue. It would be nice to solve it, but I'm not
+> sure how without another media than that's a pain to support cleanly.
+> 
+> Col 
+
+Real life is confusing.  :-(  
+
+Hide the messy bit.  They can edit urpmi.cfg if they want to.  
+
+The user interface should just ask simple questions; like, 
+"Do you want to avoid non-free software?",  
+"Do you want to avoid possibly patented software?", 
+"Do you want to avoid backported software?", 
+"Do you want to avoid software not approve by QA yet?", and
+"Do you want to avoid software that gives debug messages?".  
+Where each of those questions applies to half of the repositories.  
+
+I am assuming automatic answers to the unasked questions about 
+updates and about 64 bit versus 32 bit.  Each of which also 
+applies to half of the repositories.  
+
+Five answers handle 128 repositories.  
+
+If you assume that only advance users will want to know about 
+backports, testing and debug then you only have to ask TWO 
+questions.  Maybe three; non-free, tainted, advanced?  
+
+This should be posted somewhere else, I just don't know where.  
+
+
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