[Bug 4363] Review request: chromium-libs-media-freeworld - Chromium media libraries built with all possible codecs

Having a more deep look into your packages, it's seems like you are replacing the media sub-package to complement the fedora chromium version. So it's by design that you "substitute" the fedora -media version with a freeworld version. Unfortunately, the substitute methods imply to conflict with the fedora -media package having them removed before the freeworld version can be installed. If that's easy enough in command line, it will be more difficult to do with any software center application. So I'm trying to reword my question: - Is there any reason the fedora chromium -media subpackage is shipped for anything useful ? Is it possible to exclude /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so from chromium-libs-media , make /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libmedia.so dlopen libffmpeg.so if available from our -freeworld package ? Or even better, make the libffmpeg.so dlopen ffmpeg-libs if available making any chromium-*freeworld package unneeded ? (like what is done with firefox currently dlopening ffmpeg-libs at runtime).

My understanding is: No that is not possible. What is proposed in the original packaging here is (currently) the only/best way.