libflashsupport - Shouldn't this be libflashsupport-pulse or something like that?

[Warren Togami]

Kelly Miller wrote:
> It just seems to me that there is a good chance for conflict if there is 
> another plugin for Flash sound ever added to the repository; 
> technically, any sound extension is providing libflashsupport...
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to call the package libflashsupport-pulse and have 
> it "Provides: libflashsupport" or something along those lines?
> 

If you want to add other abilities to libflashsupport, implement it as 
patches for the libflashsupport package itself and we can issue Fedora 
updates.  The only criteria is to NOT change the current default 
behavior.  You would need to use /etc/sysconfig/libflashsupport or an 
environment variable or something to select alternative behaviors.

I suggested to Adobe to create a centralized upstream project around 
libflashsupport in order to prevent splintering of many forks in 
distributions, but they seem to have given up on the idea.  (Last asked 
them 2-3 months ago, no response.)

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com