On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 14:22 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >>> > - What about watching films, listening to music? I think it is a basic >>> > requirement for students (at least for me). >>> > >>> > Maybe we should add a that a student should be able to play videos and >>> > listen to music. It should be easy to install required codes >>> > (free/nonfree/patente) if they are available in the repositories (yes, I >>> > mean rpmfusion) >>> >>> This would require approval beyond the WG, as it goes against Fedora's >>> policies. Note, I am not saying you are incorrect, just that it's a >>> conversation to be had elsewhere first. >> >> Ensuring that it's possible/easy to install plugins from third party >> repositories when appropriate if those third party repositories are >> defined is not, I don't believe, against any policies, or we could not >> have the automatic codec installation mechanisms in Totem and Rhythmbox. >> (Which, as I read it, is the kind of thing this comment was about). > > The codec search only works if you have repositories configured that > have packages that match the Provides (as far as I understand). > Fedora policy says that we do not promote or install such > repositories. This is the "don't talk about RPMFusion" rule. And I still think this kind of "censorship" is a bit to paranoid but IANAL. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
