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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-10-30 19:30, Simone Caronni
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 30 October 2013 19:12, Alec Leamas
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wishlist and/or dead reviews we have some re-distributable
packages such as skype, spotify and msttcore-fonts. After
scratching my head over these I've hacked some silly
scripts , called them lpf (Local package Factory) and made
a package of it. It's on it's way into fedora, currently
in rawhide, f20 and f19 updates-testing.<br>
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Using this package it should be simpler to package a thing
like spotify. The downloader lpf-spotfy-client is also on
it's way into fedora, lpf-skype needs a review. The
overall idea here is to have a common framework for these
packages simplifying for both users and packagers. Since
they by definition don't contain any upstream stuff they
go into fedora rather than rpmfusion, although they are on
the rpmfusion wishlist.<br>
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I don't know if this is a good idea. Time will tell,</blockquote>
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<div>I can take the review for lpf-skype, I have already
packaged Skype a hundred times. Link?<br>
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You are most welcome!
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023714">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023714</a><br>
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I have a question regarding all of this. What prevents any
kind of non-free software like Nvidia drivers, Steam, RAR
or whatever to go in Fedora with the same approach?<br>
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Basically nothing. However, from a user perspective I still think a
rpmfusion re-distrbutable package is preferred since lpf cannot
really hide the fact that packages must be downloaded and built
-> user needs to "push the button", long delays and build chain
dependencies. Also, lpf is primarely designed for leaf packages, I
don't really sees how it should work if something depends on a lpf
package. <br>
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BTW, for other reasons Tom Callaway has decided that every lpf
package should have a legal review. So I feel pretty safe here :)<br>
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--alec<br>
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