Announcing rpmfusion

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Sep 12 18:19:20 UTC 2007


Casey Dahlin wrote:
> So if I install MP3 support, I get as dependancies the KDE mp3 plugins 
> and an entire KDE multimedia subsystem, even though I don't use KDE?
> 
> This seems to fail to take into account what it is we want to support 
> mp3s, and how we want to do it. On the one hand that seems like more 
> info than the user cares about, but on the other hand, if you end up 
> pulling two desktop environments along with your single codec for 
> dependancies (I've seen a few fedora users who did not realize they had 
> a full KDE install on their system because they installed a few QT-based 
> games).
> 

If they didn't know and they can miss the diskspace, then why is this  a problem?

Regards,

Hans




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