[Bug 173790] Review Request: gstreamer-plugins-fcextras

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Summary: Review Request: gstreamer-plugins-fcextras


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173790





------- Additional Comments From thomas at apestaart.org  2005-11-21 08:24 EST -------
This is a little difficult.

A few things:

- packages in livna and freshrpms and gstreamer repo with encumbered stuff are
currently called gstreamer-plugins-extra-*, not gstreamer-extra-*
- GStreamer 0.10 is coming out in two weeks.  That version will have four
tarballs of plugins, not just one, and specifically tries to address
distribution's issues with the plugins as well.
In short, there will be:
- base: a set of essential plug-ins.  All of these are expected to be built and
shipped by a distro
- good: as set of plug-ins with good licensing and quality.  All of these
expected to be shipped
- ugly: a set of plug-ins of good quality, but various distro-related issues. 
Patent problems, licensing problems, ...
- bad: plug-ins of questionable quality, not matured yet, ... ship at own risk.

Now, given that you mention targetting fc5, you could decide to not pursue
shipping these few plug-ins in extra. But, since 0.8 is parallel-installable
with 0.10, you might still want to provide them for those people and apps still
on 0.8.

I guess this needs more thought, and some thinking on the core question: how
much pain do you want to be in ? :)

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