Re: Adobe reader

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Friday, 26 October 2007 at 07:17, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 25.10.2007 19:57, RPM Fusion Wiki wrote: >>> The following page has been changed by ChristophKarl: >>> http://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist?action=diff&rev1=12&rev2=13 >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Place your current requests here. >>> {{{ >>> + Request: Acrobat Reader >>> + Summary: Viewing PDF Files. >>> + URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html >>> + Grounds for inclusion: For complicated documents Acrobat Reader produces better results >>> + >> As much as I would like a sane Adobe reader RPM in rpmfusion, it's not >> possible afaics. From >> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/distribute.html >> """ >> Note: Third-party websites must link directly to Adobe.com for the >> download of Adobe Reader software. Hosting the software independently is >> not permitted. >> """ >> >> IOW: we can ship that without breaking licenses, thus we won't ship it. >> Same for flash-player afaik. > > We could provide nosrc.rpms like jpackage does, but we can think about it > later. > > Regards, > R. > Actually I have a group of students working on a third party application installer for Fedora, which will use a combination of autodownloader, no src rpms (which will automatically get build using "sources" downloaded through autodownloader) and system-install-packages, the end result will be a list of applications like acroreader, googleearth, realplayer, etc. Which can then be installed / updated with a single click by the enduser, while still getting correct SELinux permissions, being easy removable as they will be installed as rpms, etc.