On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 15:23 -0500, Josh Boyer 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. > > So sure, we can have software that will pull things in if the user has > done some manual intervention. We just cant, currently, do that thing > for them. Right, that's exactly what I was saying. I just think this is all the _original poster_ was talking about, not any kind of automatic configuration of such repositories. (Or at least, you can read it that way). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
