You are most welcome! https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023714On 30 October 2013 19:12, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec@gmail.com> wrote:
On the wishlist and/or dead reviews we have some re-distributable packages such as skype, spotify and msttcore-fonts. After scratching my head over these I've hacked some silly scripts , called them lpf (Local package Factory) and made a package of it. It's on it's way into fedora, currently in rawhide, f20 and f19 updates-testing.
Using this package it should be simpler to package a thing like spotify. The downloader lpf-spotfy-client is also on it's way into fedora, lpf-skype needs a review. The overall idea here is to have a common framework for these packages simplifying for both users and packagers. Since they by definition don't contain any upstream stuff they go into fedora rather than rpmfusion, although they are on the rpmfusion wishlist.
I don't know if this is a good idea. Time will tell,
I can take the review for lpf-skype, I have already packaged Skype a hundred times. Link?
Basically nothing. However, from a user perspective I still think a rpmfusion re-distrbutable package is preferred since lpf cannot really hide the fact that packages must be downloaded and built -> user needs to "push the button", long delays and build chain dependencies. Also, lpf is primarely designed for leaf packages, I don't really sees how it should work if something depends on a lpf package.
I have a question regarding all of this. What prevents any kind of non-free software like Nvidia drivers, Steam, RAR or whatever to go in Fedora with the same approach?