Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

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On 07/28/2010 11:13 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 17:00:01 -0500,
>    "Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ)"<ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Adam Williamson<awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>> That is assuming that "the other repo" uses the same name as Fedora's.
>> Fedora could call it ffmpeg-free, and "the other repo" could call it
>> ffmpeg-nonfree, and have the nonfree one obsolete the free one. Simple fix,
>> I think.
>
> "conflicts" would probably be more appropriate than "obsoletes".

You could also relocate and rename the fedora one and use alternatives.

This is probably slightly cleaner, and means that The Other Repo(s) 
don't need to change their packages at all for it to work.

But, as others have noted, this is the easy part.

Splitting out the free parts and maintaining them is the hard bit.
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