PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin replacing codeina

[Hans de Goede]

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

Regards,

Hans