libflashsupport

[Valent Turkovic]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 24.05.08 00:34, Bastien Nocera (bnocera at redhat.com) wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:51 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> > Rahul Sundaram (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) said:
>> > > It seems libflashsupport was dropped out of the default package list in
>> > > Fedora 9 and I didn't see any public discussion on the reasons behind this
>> > > change (release notes didn't get updated either until recently
>> > > unfortunately) Can someone familiar with this change explain the reason?
>> >
>> > Check the FESCo logs... general reasoning is that it existed solely
>> > as a crutch for third-party software, IIRC.
>>
>> And I'm sure the people who came up with that idea made sure to nicely
>> ask Adobe to make their Flash plugins depend on it. Or explained to them
>> what that tool did so they can fix their software.
>
> Adobe Flash 10 doesn't need libflashsupport anymore to work fine on
> ALSA ioplug-based backends such as pulse.
>
> Lennart

Current version of Flash 10 doesn't work with Firefox under linux.

Cheers,
Valent.


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