[Mageia-dev] Looking for a Packager mentor

Mon Sep 17 12:29:25 CEST 2012

Hi,
+
+On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:34 AM, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+> Op maandag 17 september 2012 05:12:11 schreef Jehan Pagès:
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> I'll check later on the cinelerra mailing list if they ever plan to
+>> change this dependency or if they is a way to install cinelerra
+>> without faad. If not, I guess Mageia will never have it. That explains
+>> why it seems that cinelerra is in PLF for Mandriva.
+>
+> actually, iinm, faad is not an issue, just faac is.
+>
+> faad is just patented (and is in tainted)
+>
+> faac is both patented and nonfree, and we didn't want to create 10 more
+> repositories for just this one package...
+
+I see. Just for the test, I tried to compile cinelerra without faac.
+Because when I ran configure, it went to the end, with the message
+"WARNING: Mandatory components are missing; compilation may fail!".
+This warning is way less scary than usual missing dependencies so I
+tested my chance.
+But whatever, it failed anyway, as expected.
+
+So I guess we won't have cinelerra. But I realy wonder why so many
+programs are relying on a library which has such legal issues.
+Thanks.
+
+Jehan
+
+>> Thanks.
+>>
+>> Jehan
+>>
+>> > Regards,
+>> >
+>> >         Shlomi Fish
+>> >
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+>> >
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+>> >
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+>> >
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