Trying out swfdec for Fedora 11

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Wed Nov 5 18:57:06 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the last few weeks, I have been using swfdec in rawhide and it has been
> working quite well for my limited usage. Should we include swfdec by default
> in rawhide for Fedora 11 right after the Fedora 10 release?
>
> At the very least, directing more feedback towards improving it, by having
> it as default would be good regardless of whether it is mature enough for
> Fedora 11 release yet. It is one of the last pieces of proprietary software
> that almost everyone ends up using in Linux. Comments?

My main concern with this is how it affects the installation
experience of the proprietary plugin.  Right now Swfdec claims the
same plugin name, if you have them both installed I think it basically
just breaks.  Needs investigation anyways.




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