On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Roman Bysh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear List mates, > > I am recommending the creation of a pattern entry named "Multimedia-Pack". > > This came to me after reading the openSUSE Forum's Multimedia help file. > The help file lists the most popular packages for installation to get an > openSUSE user's multimedia working. Excluding blu-ray. > > The "Multimedia-Pack" will provide links to all of the apps, codecs, > libdvdcss and media library files shown in our Multimedia help file plus > a few > more for installation. > > We can reference Carl Fletcher's work on the OneClick installer. > * If it's okay with Carl ;-) > > Why do we need this? > > 1. Handy for users that prefer the Yast package manager/kpackagekit > 2. Offers an alternate installation to using zypper or OneClick-installer > 3. Faster than installing each file one at a time > 4. Requires a single mouse click for installation > 5. Ideal for users that require multiple laptop and PC set ups > > > I believe that this feature simplifies and improves our codecs installation. > Especially when it can work in concert with openSUSE's ksuseinstaller. > Something that was lacking in previous versions of openSUSE. > > Any thoughts on making this work? > > Cheers! > > Roman
I think you should include the vlc repo maintainers in this as well. libdvdcss is only found there. However, there are a lot of conflicts between packages in that repo and packages in packman, which I think would lead to a lot of difficulty for users. So I think a clear separation between the roles of the packman repo and the roles of the vlc repo so such conflicts are either eliminated entirely or at least kept to a minimum is critical before this sort of thing is pushed to users. I don't think it would reflect well on openSUSE if the official multimedia pack automatically leads to dependency hell and potentially instability in the system. So I think these conflicts need to be resolved first. -Todd _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
