rpmfusion based spin

[manuel wolfshant]

On 08/29/2008 03:49 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> 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 ;-)
Yup. Especially for those who make use of  
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia