Re: Self Introdction: nick black

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Richard Shaw left as an exercise for the reader:
> Yes, there's a number of examples but audacity and sox are two. What we do
> at RPM Fusion is create a new package there that depends on the package in
> Fedora and either append -freeworld (just patent issues, like ffmpeg which
> are in the free repo), or append -nonfree for packages that depend on "free
> as in beer" instead of "free as in speech" libraries.
> 
> There are a few requirements though to make this work (and I'm not an
> expert here so correct me if I'm wrong!)
> 1. The library needs to be dlopen()'ed from the main package so it'll still
> function without the "extra" packages from RPM Fusion.
> 2. All the bits common to the main package need to be excluded from the RPM
> Fusion package since we can't (and don't want to) have redunded files in
> the package. This may look like "libnotcurses-ffmpeg.so.<soname}" which
> would be the only payload in the RPM Fusion -freeworld package.

This is exactly how I intend to structure my "notcurses-minimal"
for Debian, so it oughtn't be much extra work, excellent:

 https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/339

Alright, I'll look into this. BTW, while I've read the Packaging
Guidelines at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/,
there seem to be some operational details that I'm missing. For
instance, it seems I need file a bug once I have my source and
binary RPMs -- where can I find details on the necessary
information in that bug? Sorry if I've overlooked it :/.

-- 
nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com
to make an apple pie from scratch,
you need first invent a universe.
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