Re: VLC in Fedora vs RPMFusion

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On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 04:55:50PM +0100, Ralf Corsépius wrote:
> Am 24.12.23 um 16:20 schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> >Is there some advantage here?  I don't want to lose the ability to
> >playback weird / proprietary stuff, which is (I assume) why I needed
> >to use vlc from rpmfusion.
> 
> I think, this posting says enough:
> https://twitter.com/rpmfusion_team/status/1735617564527472862
> 
> RHAT/Fedora has taken over vlc and pushed incompatible changes midst
> of the lifetime of a released Fedora.

Thanks, this explains the change (which I've blocked with an
"excludes" ... for now).  The bug report is more informative:

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6816

> IMO, this is entirely inappropriate and should not have happened.

It does seem rather rude and should have been done in a more
thoughtful way.

Rich.

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