On 11 January 2016 at 11:42, Philip Brown <philip.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/11/2016 11:48 AM, 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. >> > > never be able to run yum again????? > I have been running this workaround for close to a year and dnf/yum is still > fully operational. > I am merely placing a few library files in my home folder. pray tell, how is > this going to blow up my system??? > Not what I said. > i understand you have nothing against the RPMFusion system and therefore > there would be absolutely no benefit for you. however the poster whom I > replied to, like me, had concerns and this is simply my workaround. > > What is your concern about RPMFusion? You seem to imply you have something against it. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- 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
