[Bug 289] Review request: gstreamer-pitfdll - GStreamer plugin for using MS Windows binary codecs

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289





--- Comment #24 from Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at fedoraproject.org>  2009-01-10 03:03:06 ---
(In reply to comment #23)
> As opposed to not explicitly listing the dependency at all and expecting users
> to somehow provide the pieces? How is that better?
> 

Adding a Requires for a package which neither fedora nor rpmfusion provides is
a no-no. IIRC it's not even permitted. You cannot ever be sure that a 3rd party
repo will fill the gap.
What one can do is to apply  Andreas's suggestion (i.e. ship the free bits),
own the directory were the codecs should land and 
- either download those codecs automatically (in %post) if possible or
- include a fedora.readme containing the instructions on how to manually
download the missing bits 


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