Some packages I find missing

Marko Anastasov marko at marko.anastasov.name
Thu Oct 11 21:06:05 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 02:08 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Marko Anastasov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Hopefully this is the right place to ask.
> > 
> > I've installed Fedora 8 test 3 and I'm curious why there
> > is still no package for glade3 for Fedora?
> 
> A review was closed off midway at
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=177747

Bad news for me. I'm surprised that there are no people interested
in making a package, as Glade is quite important for many developers.

> 
> > Also, there are no packages for swfdec and swfdec-mozilla?
> 
> Swfdec uses software that has potential patent issues and hence cannot 
> be in Fedora. 

It used to be in Fedora 7.

> Gnash which is a alternative to swfdec is available in the 
> repository however.

I had very bad experiences with Gnash - crashing X, I believe (even
the keyboard would become unusable when it'd happen).

	Marko





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