Web site suggestions.
Michael Gargiullo
mgargiullo at warpdrive.net
Fri Mar 12 18:41:10 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 13:32, Robin Laing wrote:
> As many have pointed out before, there are alot of packages and codecs
> that fit nicely for the home user that are not included with Fedora.
> This is for many reasons and most of them have something to do with
> laywers.
>
> My suggestion is a Fedora WWW site that is outside the US as a single
> point of reference for all these different applications and codecs.
> Even if provides decent links to the various sites around the world
> would be better than what many new users have to go through to find
> that codec for MP3's or play DVD's.
>
> Someone that comes from Windows with all their nicely included tools
> can get quite frustrated with searching for that necessary plugin for
> their computer to play DVD's.
>
> A site name suggestion of something like "fedora for the home." They
> could even mirror the necessary applications or provide an ISO image
> for installation.
>
> It is frustrating when you go to install a package and there is a
> dependency problem and yum cannot find the correct package or you
> don't have the signature for the site.
>
> --
> Robin Laing
>
Would be nice, but until then add the freshrpms and dag yum repositories
to your yum config and type things like
#yum install mplayer
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