Re: rpmfusion based spin

Andreas Thienemann wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > >> Just curious, how would the genuine Fedora DVD or CD set know about >> the extra media during the installation? Of course additional media >> is useful *after* the initial installation where people can point a >> repo to the media:// url, possibly that .repo file could even be >> included in the rpmfusion-release package. > > It wouldn't, if I'm reading this correctly. > You're right, I'm unable to think of a way that would currently work. It could be done, but it'd reintroduce the "Do you want to use any additional media (...)" dialog in anaconda and would only appear *after* the initial installation is done already. > You install your fedora whatever, pop the matching livna cd into the > drive, autostart crap does it's thing and some gtk frontend comes up, > showing a nice little animal saying "It seems you want to install > some additional 3rd party software. Do you want mp3, dvd or divx > support? Or do you want your nvidia card to work?". > Instead, I'd just recreate the Fedora released media to include the RPMFusion Free/Non-Free additional repositories (with a product.img) and be done with it (of course, rebrand the lot). > If the livna-assistant sounds overblown, a small gtk installer might > do it's thing as well, could even be scripted with the > dialog-de-jour-pour-x11 or whatever it's called today. Timidity or so > was it the last time I looked. > Really, if a GUI is going to pop up on inserting some media with software, PackageKit should be the one taking it on. > Personally speaking:_WHY_ we'd need such a cd however is beyond me, I > haven't touched a CD or DVD in years. PXE does that to you.... > It's a good thing everyone has PXE at home these days ;-)