Adobe reader

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 30.10.2007 08:11, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>> On Friday, 26 October 2007 at 07:17, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> On 25.10.2007 19:57, RPM Fusion Wiki wrote:
>>>> The following page has been changed by ChristophKarl:
>>>> http://rpmfusion.org/Wishlist?action=diff&rev1=12&rev2=13
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>   Place your current requests here. 
>>>>   {{{
>>>> +   Request: Acrobat Reader
>>>> +   Summary: Viewing PDF Files.
>>>> +   URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
>>>> +   Grounds for inclusion: For complicated documents Acrobat Reader produces better results
>>>> + 
>>> As much as I would like a sane Adobe reader RPM in rpmfusion, it's not
>>> possible afaics. From
>>> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/distribute.html
>>> """
>>> Note: Third-party websites must link directly to Adobe.com for the
>>> download of Adobe Reader software. Hosting the software independently is
>>> not permitted.
>>> """
>>> IOW: we can ship that without breaking licenses, thus we won't ship it.
>>> Same for flash-player afaik.
>> We could provide nosrc.rpms like jpackage does, but we can think about it
>> later.
> Actually I have a group of students working on a third party application 
> installer for Fedora, which will use a combination of autodownloader, no src 
> rpms (which will automatically get build using "sources" downloaded through 
> autodownloader) and system-install-packages, the end result will be a list of 
> applications like acroreader, googleearth, realplayer, etc. Which can then be 
> installed / updated with a single click by the enduser, while still getting 
> correct SELinux permissions, being easy removable as they will be installed as 
> rpms, etc.

Sounds very nice.

Just one thing: you know that Aurélien years ago tried something
similar? See http://papi.sourceforge.net/

CU
knurd