could the "missing codec" redirection be more informative?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Mon Nov 23 01:00:28 UTC 2009
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>
> >>> on a fresh (and barely configured) f12 system, i tried to view
> >>> my first online .wmv file and was redirected here:
> >>>
> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageKit_Items_Not_Found#Missing_Codec
> >>>
> >>> which is moderately informative in terms of telling me what the
> >>> problem is, but utterly useless in terms of telling me how to fix
> >>> it.
> >>>
> >>> yes, i realize the issues surrounding codecs, but would it be
> >>> unduly difficult to add to that section some advice on where to
> >>> *find* such codecs? you know, point readers at rpmfusion or some
> >>> such? is that not a legally acceptable thing to do? because
> >>> that's *exactly* the sort of thing that will drive newcomers to
> >>> fedora totally nuts.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> AFAIK, it is not legally acceptable to explicitly tell someone how
> >> to break the law.
> >>
> >> I hope nobody starts to argue about how silly they think these laws
> >> are.....
> >>
> >
> > um ... ok. in that case, why is fedoraproject.org explicitly
> > pointing people at rpmfusion.org here?
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OtherRepositories
> >
> >
> But, they are not explicitly solving a given problem for you.
> Subtle difference.
i wasn't suggesting that the diagnostic solve the problem. but
would it be unacceptable for it to give *general* advice about
possibly adding extra repositories to your system, and by the way,
here's a page with a list of possible repos, do with them what you
will.
is that unreasonable?
rday
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