Richard Hughes wrote:
When I build the new version of PackageKit today, it will have a new subpackage, PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin. This provides the optional binary /usr/libexec/pk-gstreamer-install which is symlinked to gst-install-plugins-helper. This means we get UI like this http://packagekit.org/img/gpk-client-codecs.png rather than being prompted to pay for codecs using codeina. Should I just add: Obsoletes: codeina < 0.10.1-8 Provides: codeina = 0.10.1-8 to the gstreamer-plugin part of the spec file and be done away with codeina? This would allow people to remove PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin and install codeina if they really wanted, but by default we get the "right" thing installed for the release. Also, we can't do an "everything" install, as both packages provide the gst-install-plugins-helper file. One option might be for the gstreamer package to install a bash script gst-install-plugins-helper, which directs to either codeina, or PackageKit. So what I'm really asking is, do we really want people to be able to: 1. use codeina in F10 2. install PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin and codeina at the same time Advice welcome.
I have one minor concern here. Currently, codeina gives users a pointer to a location where they can get codecs from, in the case where they aren't supported within the Fedora repositories. While pointing people to Fluendo to buy codec packs isn't exactly the greatest feature to preserve, we at least offer a solution to folks following a clean install. So far as I can tell, this PK solution does nothing for the user if they haven't already configured a 3rd-party repository where the necessary codec might be available. *I* know where to find that stuff and make this solution work as expected, but a new user might not, meaning the search would fail, and they'd think there's no way to play back their WMV crapola, complain loudly, etc., so this would be something of a regression from F9, IMO. Of course, if there's actually something in there that says "hey, you need to set up a 3rd-party repo and/or you can get codecs from Fluendo", then no problem.
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