On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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). OK. I guess that's fine, but it seems like a non-goal to me. I mean, it already works that way. All adding it to the PRD would do would make an easy thing to check off the list as "met". josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
