Re: what's the purpose of rpmfusion
On Thursday 20 November 2008 03:29:10 pm Farkas Levente wrote:
hi,
after the libdvdcss discussion it'd be useful to define the purpose of
rpmfusion. first of all imho it's a good thing to merge repos (even
further rpmfusion and rpmforge would be nice). but currently it's not
clear what kind of packages get into rpmfusion.
- only those packages which can't be added to fedora? ie packages which
is acceptable for fedora still can be in rpmfusion?
- than which packages?
- kmods (ok it's clear)
- what else?
eg: why these packages here rather then fedora:
open-vm-tools, xvidcore, x264, gstreamer-plugins-bad, ffmpeg etc
it'd be a useful faq or even documented on the start page.
Hi, this is made quite clear on the main page: "The goal is to simplify
end-user experience by grouping as much add-on software as possible in a
single location." Immediately thereafter it refers to
http://rpmfusion.org/FoundingPrinciples, which states very clearly what is
acceptable for RPM Fusion.
None of open-vm-tools, xvidcore, x264, gstreamer-plugins-bad, ffmpeg etc can
be in Fedora proper because of patent concerns.
Please read (have you heard of google?!) before asking stupid questions on
mailing lists (this goes for fedora-devel-list as well).
Regards,
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Conrad Meyer <konrad(a)tylerc.org>