On Friday 19 August 2005 00:46, Paul A Houle <ph18@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Due to dependencies I don't think it will be possible to spin a > > distribution without any of the programs which MAY have MP3 support. You > > can't produce a distribution with MP3 support and call it Fedora for > > legal reasons. > > I don't see why I can't pull out any packages I want, so long as I > pull out all the dependencies -- this might involve yanking a lot of > desktop stuff, but so what. Sure, if you are prepared to pull out so much desktop stuff then that's a possibility. I was assuming that you wouldn't want to make such radical changes. > The only trouble I see is that some people might do a "yum install" > of media-player dependent things which would then install the official > media players, which may conflict with locally installed media players. Surely there's a way of preventing that, I don't know enough about rpm dependencies to know how to do it, but it must be possible. > I don't have a lot of trouble installing the native mplayer rpm's > and putting other stuff I want in /usr/local. For instance, rpm > --erase xmms and install xmms from source. The trouble I run into is > that there are other things that depend on xmms (that I don't really > use) and if I rpm --erase --nodeps xmms, I end up having problems when > I do yum updates later. Also if you install tar-balls in /usr/local then you have no way of tracking files and versions which may have security implications if there are SUID or SGID programs. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
