Current situation, F-17: $ repoquery --whatrequires libsidplay audacious-plugins-sid-0:3.2.2-1.fc17.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0:0.10.19-1.fc17.i686 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0:0.10.19-1.fc17.x86_64 libsidplay-devel-0:1.36.60-5.fc17.i686 libsidplay-devel-0:1.36.60-5.fc17.x86_64 ocp-0:0.1.20-8.fc17.1.x86_64 So, only three packages are still using the library: - audacious-plugins-sid is a fully optional plug-in package - gstreamer-plugins-ugly is from RPM Fusion Free - ocp is an ancient audio player from the DOS era [1] libsidplay v2 has taken over many years ago, but could not and still cannot be included with Fedora for legal reasons (copyright issues related to "kernal ROM" and "Microsoft Basic ROM" images). An Audacious plug-in using the v2 lib can be provided by a 3rd party repo, too. There's also a more recent libsidplayfp project, a forked libsidplay2 that aims at improving the implementation in various ways (e.g. making it thread-safe). It also cannot be included with Fedora because of the same ROM image problems. Those files cannot simply be dropped as they are strictly needed at run-time. They are essential to the default capabilities of the more modern libsidplay2 code base. Only theoretically, it would be possible to modify the implementation and treat the ROM images as optional, but someone to do that is missing. And without the ROM images, libsidplay2 would be less capable. And "less capable" here means that a full-featured libsidplay2 is needed to handle existing files that the old libsidplay v1 cannot handle either. The file format of those files (an enhanced PSID header) has been introduced many years ago with libsidplay2. libsidplay v1 cannot and will not be able to handle those files ever. Conclusively, IMO it's time to retire libsidplay v1 beginning with Fedora 18. [1] "ocp" even has failed to play .sid files 2010-08-20 (bug 625885) and the bug is still open, as the Fedora package doesn't seem to be well-maintained enough to merge the upstream fix that has been announced in that ticket on 2011-11-02. Even a new upstream release has been made two weeks later. -- Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.3.7-1.fc17.x86_64 loadavg: 0.34 0.34 0.39 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
