[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

Mon Oct 29 23:20:48 CET 2012

Christiaan Welvaart <cjw at daneel.dyndns.org> writes:
+
+> The problem is the following:
+>
+> 1. faac cannot go into main (see 2 & 3)
+> 2. faac cannot go into tainted (it is not free software)
+> 3. faac cannot go into nonfree (patented in some countries)
+>
+> so we only have 2 options:
+> A. ban faac and use the AAC encoder(s) we already have in mageia
+>    or another one that can go into tainted
+> B. add a special repository for faac
+>
+> I prefer option A and I patched a gstreamer based video encoding app
+> to use vo-aacenc instead of faac a while ago.
+
+I would prefer B: adding a nonfree-tainted repo (+ its
+updates/testing/backports/debug brothers).
+
+See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2833 for a list of packages
+needing faac.
+
+Yes, that's overkill, it will clutter the urpmi media config UI, but
+that's the only clean way we have.
+
+I guess a simple way to unclutter the drakrpm-edit-media UI would be to
+add a drop-down menu to select between "Release + Updates" (default and
+most commonly used media), "Updates Testing", "Backports" (whenever it
+gets in), and "Debug" (for debug packages of all aforementioned groups).
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+