Freshrpms.net concerns.
Kevin Francis
kevin at loose-screws.com
Sun Nov 9 13:03:33 UTC 2003
I mean in compatibility. Honestly, I care not for the patenting, as my
country hasn't even heard of this :P
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 03:19, Konrad Kosmowski wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Kevin Francis wrote:
>
> > I find myself in complete agreement with you. It is important that
> > people realise that they cannot mix and match repositories.
>
> By using FreshRPMS (which are build *for* Fedora) and Fedora what do I
> exactly mix? - I don't get it. Seriously.
>
> > I want cool apps too, but not at the price I might have to pay.
>
> What is the price of using Fedora and FreshRPMS? Essential packages come
> from Fedora, addons come from FreshRPMS, they do *NOT* exactly mix since
> none of FreshRPMS packages *replaces* any of Fedora packages - they are
> simply *additional* that coexist together. So I still do not get your
> point.
>
> Since I live in Europe and own a nifty portable MP3 player I
> realy *need* MP3 support - since I own a DVD-ROM and legal DVD movies I
> need decoders to watch *my* *legally* *bought* movies on *my* computer
> and I do not see anything illegal in using them - thats the point of
> FreshRPMS existence (but also a quality, reliable packages) - in my view
> Fedora is somewhat disabled, beacouse you CAN'T get MP3 (and so on...)
> support in fashion way (from distribution packages) - you must use
> another non-fedora-blessed repository. I know this discussion has been
> taken so long, but why Debian can do this and Fedora not. Maybe consider
> something like splitting repos into non-us, non-free and so on...
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Kevin Francis
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