On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 09:17 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > - VLC > > > > Free software video player, but with a requirement (or at least can > > use if available) proprietary / patented / ugly / semi-legal codecs. > > Currently packaged in RPMFusion for reasons I'm not clear on. > > I've looked into this a bit, and discussed with other distro packagers and > vlc upstream. > > VLC is fairly modular, and it's unencumbered bits could be brought to fedora > and the other stuff live in some -freeworld subpkg in rpmfusion. > > Implementing this would be a bit of work, but worth it in my opinion. I Well, I'm not so sure. A *lot* of people really don't understand the patent issue. Like, at all. They don't understand modularity. Like, at all. To a lot of people, the thing called 'vlc' is a magic black box that plays every video ever. They "install VLC" and then they play videos. This is the limit of their understanding. If we make it so you can 'yum install vlc' and get something that can barely play anything, then tell people they 'just' have to 'yum install vlc-freeworld' to get it to actually work properly, we may wind up with more unhappiness than we have just by having all of vlc in the Sekrit Third Party Repository in the first place. That kinda forces them to get the whole thing or nothing, which is almost always what they want. They never wind up in the twilight zone where they have what is, to them, half a VLC. -- 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
