Le lundi 20 juin 2011 23:29:23, Daniel Kreuter a écrit : > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Florian Hubold <[email protected]>wrote: > > Am 20.06.2011 22:32, schrieb Florian Hubold: > > Hello, > > > >> just want to gather some opinions about a metapackage for all those > >> multimedia > >> stuff. Especially among newbies and beginners there seems to be need for > >> easy > >> installation of multimedia-related packages, be it codecs, or media > >> players > > > > The intended use case of this was originally to offer an easy > > one-stop-installation > > of the most common and most requested packages, > > like flash-plugin, win32-codecs (back in the days when those were still > > really needed), > > libdvdcss, gstreamer-*, lame, transcode, ffmpeg, and also stuff like > > unrar or wine. > > One point in package installation which will be a really mess for a newbie > is our actual used package manager. > > I think Ubuntu is going the right way with it's Software Center and i'm > thinking of adopting it for mageia (Maybe we are allowed to use it, don't > know under which license the Ubuntu Software Center is, and it will need > some rewriting for rpm support i think). >
FYI, the Software Center is being ported by OpenSuse to a packagekit back-end. Samuel
