On 01/25/2011 12:37 PM, todd rme wrote: > 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 >
I don't have an email contact with anyone with vlc. What I need to do is to start working with someone that can create a test package. I'd like to try this idea out in VirtualBox. I can't do this all by myself. So far you and Carl are the only people that have discussed this with me. However, I have not heard from anyone else on this mailing list from Packman. -- Cheers! Roman _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
