Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Replying to a mail on fedora-devel-list@ > On 29.09.2008 18:00, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 16:36 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: >>> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 11:32 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: >>>> "hey, you need to set up a 3rd-party repo and/or you can get codecs >>>> from Fluendo", then no problem. >>> No, there's not, but that's a good idea. What about something like: >>> ---- >>> No plugins were found to play back this media type: >>> You may need to enable or set up a 3rd party software source to find >>> these plugins. >>> You can buy media plugins from "Fluendo Codec Store" but these will not >>> be supported by your vendor. >>> ---- >>> The Fluendo Codec Store link could be just disabled in gconf, or patched >>> out by free software distros. >> I'd rather it didn't appear at all. People can swap out the helpers if >> they want. > I didn't follow that gstreamer/codeina stuff to closely, but I suppose > above was a hint for us. Which brings me to the point of this mail: did > anybody track that stuff closely? What are we supposed to do to make > life as simple as possible for our users (e.g. "to make it just work") Nothing, AFAIK their is new rpm magick which will generate magic provides for gstreamer-plugin providing packages and then package kit does the rest. All the end user needs todo is install rpmfusion-free-release and then the packagekit gstreamer helper will point the user to install whatever gstreamer-foo rpmfusion provides and the user needs at that moment.

What we need todo is a get a link in the process somewhere to a fedoraproject.org webpage which in turn links to free.rpmfusion.org, with the latter telling the user how to install rpmfusion-free-release. Maybe the fedora page can even tell them that much, I dunno. I do know that a setup like this has been approved by RH-legal. So we need to start lobbying and make it clear that: 1) rpmfusion is ready for testing use *now* with the exception of kmods, which will be fixed over the next week

2) we want the promised link to help unexperienced users find us