Yo.
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 06:24:09PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:48:14PM +0800, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > And it's hard to tell whether a user has the codecs installed for a given
> > machine, then we would need to mount his win partition and then manually copy
> > it which is very troublesome, why not just give the URL so that he can downlaod
>
> But aren't you already doing that with drakfont?
Well yes, you snag the Windows font so that you can use it on your shiny new
GNU/Linux box. But I consider Drakfont a system utility, doing that just for
one DivX related individual package would be quite troublesome ... it would
mean:
I have to find your Windows partition, your windows directory, and your
codec directory which is not really possible with %post if you want to make
it automated for all cases. Even if you provide something for me in the %post
script (which is supposed to be automated!!) then I would have to copy the
codecs into /usr/lib/win32 manually or mount whatever is necessary somewhere and
then do something so that the codecs can be found in /usr/lib/win32. I'm not
saying that I don't want to make it work out of the box, but it is kind of
troublesome, if we provide some kind of shell script so that the user can
run it and then setup (remember wget?) the codecs, then that would be fine.
This is due to the number of cases:
(1) Not everyone has supermount.
(2) Not everyone mounts his partition in /mnt/windows.
(3) Not everyone has the same Windows install directory.
Therefore, if you take care of this in %post, it would make it a very buggy
%post script. You make any change to the above situations, it breaks the
scripts which is definitely not a very desirable thing.
Yet, I have other things to take care of now, maybe I can only package some
kind of Div X player and leave the script for later ... :(
Besides, it can be easily fixed by downloading some codecs ( < 1 MB) and
putting it into /usr/lib/win32. It's not worth the trouble to go the Drakfont
way IMHO.
These are of course windows DLLs, and you need wine; so either using the
one from your Windows partition, or downloading the codecs in zip format and
placing them into /usr/lib/win32 wouldn't make you any more or any less
of a sinner. :)
Of course you are also welcome to package this and send it over. (I've seen
a lot of nice RPMS for you. :) ) Just remember that we cannot distribute
the codecs in the RPM.
BTW: What do I need
> drakfont for? I never quite understood the purpose of this utility (no,
> that's not a flame).
>
Drakfont ..? I am not sure ... I don't use it either...I have NT partition
which I never boot to on this machine. Kind of wasting space here. I have all
the fonts that I want by default, so to hell^H^H^H^H with the windoze fontz.
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