Andrew Haley wrote: > > Well, hold on: that problem is caused by software patents, not by > packaging issues. Let's point the finger in the right direction, eh? > > Andrew. Choose to nit-pick my choice of package if you like, but the problem extends far beyond mp3 players. There are dozens of fine software packages that are not patent encumbered and aren't being compiled for fedora, rhel, or name your other favorite distribution because it isn't the developers pet distribution. I have dozens of half-baked specfiles for just such packages sitting around in my home directory that I eventually gave up on because the dependency tree was just too big. Just think of the large pain in the rear you'll have to go through to get an up-to-date browser, email client, media player (sans mp3 if you wish) on any older (rhel3?) linux distribution. Requiring every project to effectively fork in some way or another in order to get into every distributions 'extras' repository isn't a tenable long-term solution. Compare that to evil-windows... Download latest firefox build, click install, it works, on darn near any windows variant out there. Most installer creators for windows will figure out which dll's you're using that aren't 'standard' and will side-by-side install them with your application and off you go. Linux applications and distributions need to be able to support the same level of application-os decoupling in order to tackle the desktop, and fedora is in a great place to lead the way. Like Arjen said, this stuff is the reason people statically link, and they do it because they don't have tools that make doing it the 'right' way easy for them. --erik
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