Announcing rpmfusion

Jima jima at beer.tclug.org
Wed Sep 12 13:41:06 UTC 2007


On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Bill Crawford wrote:
> On 12/09/2007, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> ...
>> Balance this with the convenience, useful for most users, to not have to
>> hunt for codecs/plugins, install one package and be sure the multimedia
>> playing troubles are solved.
>
> "not have to hunt for" => either
>
> 1) *all* plugins, evar, are in the one package, innit
> OR
> 2) each plugin is appropriately named (and perhaps we need some extra
> Provides: or maybe a package that pulls in appropriate ones via
> Requires:, so that one can indeed install "DVD support" and get
> libdvd{read,nav,css} pulled in, the last of them should of course be
> optional).

  Couldn't this be managed by rpmfusion using a comps file, and grouping 
various packages with "DVD support," "MP3 support," or whatnot?  `yum 
groupinstall "DVD Support"`...

      Jima




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