"hard core" linux
Russell Coker
russell at coker.com.au
Thu Aug 18 02:44:51 UTC 2005
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 01:18, Paul A Houle <ph18 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Longer-term, it might be interesting to do more of a fork: but the
> further you diverge from Fedora the more problems you have. For
> instance, people who want to play mp3's might like a distribution that
> has no media players and no dependencies on media players -- they can
> install what they like the way they like it. Trouble is that they might
Due to dependencies I don't think it will be possible to spin a distribution
without any of the programs which MAY have MP3 support. You can't produce a
distribution with MP3 support and call it Fedora for legal reasons.
Probably the best thing to do for someone who wants MP3 support would be to
create a derivative distribution "based on Fedora Core" that has the MP3
support compiled in.
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