-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 19 February 2007, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Sunday 18 February 2007, Rex Dieter wrote: >>>> Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>> Hi; >>>>> >>>>> Trying to play a .wmv here, using kaffiene, video is great, >>>>> no audio. In wandering around in the kaffiene menu's, I >>>>> cannot find a place where one can assign an audio output >>>>> path arbitrarily, it has 'auto' and blank for the options. >>>>> >>>>> I am also getting a 'can't bind info socket' from the dvb >>>>> client. Render engine in use is kaffiene-xine, and >>>>> apparently cannot be changed because of the above error. >>>> install xine-lib-extras-nonfree from livna? Does that help? >>> I just swore off of livna, once you have a livna rpm installed, >>> its dependencies absolutely preclude updating anything else. >>> Is there not an equ from freshrpms, dries, or atrpms? >> Yes, currently a serious pain in the arse. I'd love to see this >> problem of repos providing similar/duplicate, but incompatible >> versions of the same (in this case, multimedia) packages resolved >> asap. >> > IMO this does a great deal of harm to the Fedora distro. Anyone > searching the archives will find dozens if not hundreds of > 'problem' posts that are actually caused by these repos. It gives > a very bad impression of Fedora. > > Anne Agreed! What we have here is, in essence a fork (or 2) of the packages. Now, it is easy enough for experienced users to put in a exclude= in the other .repo file, but a new user should not have to do this. Perhaps one (or both) of these repos could formalize the fork by changing the names of the packages which would solve the problem for everyone. Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF2cmW5mBKdb7VQEcRAlEAAKCgZE8WGrK2TWYetvnN8aCUw5KeUgCdET7M fv6TED0sk/kmJAS/Mqx8zW0= =gj4r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
