On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 10:48 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > On 11 January 2016 at 01:35, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 10 January 2016, Philip Brown sent: > > > however, in a couple of very simple steps, this gives me a very > > > usable > > > multimedia system on my default fedora workstation without having > > > to > > > install any additional repos. which for me is awesome. > > > > > > and I can confirm all I had to do was download and extract .so > > > files > > > from the following 2 rpms: > > > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/22/Everything > > > /x86_64/os/repoview/gstreamer1-libav.html > > > http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/22/Everything > > > /x86_64/os/repoview/gstreamer-plugins-ugly.html > > > > > > really that simple, no dealing with runtime linker search paths, > > > additional rpm dependencies or anything like that. > > > > > > ok I admit, in the long run, maybe it is planless, however this > > > is not > > > intended as a complete solution intended to work forever, it will > > > get > > > you up and running now and will probably keep working in the > > > future > > > but as listed above it is not a repo sysyem with dnf/yum updates > > > and > > > there will come a day when dependencies mismatch but... c'est la > > > vie. > > > > That's all very well, if you never intend to do a yum update again, > > in > > the future. But if you do, then you've got to deal with all the > > breakage that ensues. Which is going to be more work than simply > > installing the repo, and installing the files you need, letting the > > system do the work for you. > > > > Yes, this is why I don't see any benefit to this approach at all. You > have to manually download the right rpms, extract libraries, move > them > into place and then they'll stop working if you ever update the > installed programs. On top of which codecs are a great target for > vulnerabilities, so worth keeping them up to date. To me this seems > much more work than installing the rpmfusion repo, which involves > clicking two links at <http://rpmfusion.org/>, and you get a less > reliable setup out of it. The rpmfusion guys do a great job and it > integrates with the fedora repos, many of the people there are also > fedora project packagers. Particularly over things like gstreamer > where the plugins provided will work with fedora gstreamer directly. +1 poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
